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FIG. i3H. Watercolor drawing
of a similarly mounted lidded
bowl. New York, The Metro-
politan Museum of Art, Gift
of Raphael Esmerian, 1961
[61.680. i (8)].

NOTES crowned C; Sotheby's, London, June 25, 1982, lot 59;
i. Both four- and six-character reign marks of the Chenghua Christie's, Monaco, December 5, 1992, no. 93; Christie's,
emperor (r. 1465-87) are found on ceramics of a later London, December 10, 1992, lot 213. The last two pairs
date. In these cases, however, no attempt has been made bore mounts struck with the crowned C; Sotheby's, Lon-
by the maker to copy the porcelain of the fifteenth cen- don, December 16, 1998, lot 156 (without crowned C's).
tury and no deception was intended. 5. Christie's, London, June 30, 1905, lot. 105.
2,. See commentary for catalogue no. 5. 6. Livre-journal de Lazare Duvaux 1873, p. 302, no. 2650,
3. De Bellaigue 1974, pp. 75^-53, no. 196. and p. 314, no. 2769.
4. Christie's, London, November 2,6, 1970, lot 12, sold by 7. Ace. no. 61.680.1(8); see M. Myers, French architectural
order of the trustees of the late A. C. J. Wall, gilt-bronze and ornament drawings of the eighteenth century (New
mounts struck with the crowned C; Drouot Rive Droite, York, 1991), pp. 195-200.
Paris, December 10, 1980, no. 74, mounts with the

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