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PROPERTY OF A LADY 清乾隆 五彩龍鳳紋盌一對
《大清乾隆年製》款
A PAIR OF WUCAI ‘DRAGON AND
PHOENIX’ BOWLS 來源：
SEAL MARKS AND PERIOD OF 香港蘇富比1992年4月28/29日，編號172
QIANLONG 香港蘇富比2007年10月9日，編號1618

each with deep rounded sides rising from a short
straight foot to a gently flared rim, the exterior
vividly decorated with a green and an iron-red
dragon striding in pursuit of flaming pearls,
interrupted by a pair of descending phoenix, all
below a band of bajixiang and ruyi emblems, the
interior with a medallion enclosing an iron-red
five-clawed dragon writhing next to a flaming
pearl, the base inscribed in underglaze blue with
a six-character reign mark within a double circle,
wood stands
15.4 cm, 6⅛ in.

PROVENANCE Marks

Sotheby’s Hong Kong 28th/29th April, 1992, lot
172.
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 9th October 2007, lot
1618.

HK$ 800,000-1,200,000
US$ 103,000-154,000

It is relatively rare to find a pair of such well-
matched Qianlong ‘dragon and phoenix bowls’.
An individual bowl of this size and design in the
Jingdezhen Ceramic Museum is illustrated in
Keitokuchin jiki, Tokyo, 1982, p. 119 bottom;
and another from the Ohlmer Collection in the
Roemer Museum, Hildesheim, is included in
Ulrich Wiesner, Chinesisches Porzellan, Mainz am
Rhein, 1981, pl. 123.

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