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A MING-STYLE COPPER-RED ‘THREE FISH’ Compare several published Yongzheng period examples,
STEM BOWL including one illustrated in John Ayers, Chinese Ceramics,
MARK AND PERIOD OF YONGZHENG The Koger Collection, London, 1985, pl. 97; and another from
the T.Y. Chao Collection, included in the exhibition Ming and
the interior of the stem with a six-character mark in Ch’ing Porcelain from the Collection of the T.Y. Chao Family
underglaze blue Foundation, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1978,
Diameter 6⅜ in., 16 cm
cat. no. 75, sold in our London rooms, 8th July 1974, lot 280
PROVENANCE and then again in our Hong Kong rooms, 19th May 1987,
lot 264. Compare also a closely related example, previously
Orientique, Hong Kong, 13th January 2010.
in the Meiyintang Collection, sold in our Hong Kong rooms,
Designs created through red-glaze silhouettes originated 8th April 2013, lot 36.
in the early Ming dynasty and are best known from the
Xuande (1426-35) period, but the technique had already $ 20,000-30,000
been developed during the Yongle reign (1403-24), when
silhouettes of animals and fish were used in combination 清雍正 釉裏紅三魚紋高足盌
with underglaze-blue designs; see an example excavated
from the late Yongle stratum of the Ming imperial kiln site, 《大清雍正年製》款
illustrated in Imperial Porcelain of the Yongle and Xuande
Periods Excavated from the Site of the Ming Imperial Factory 來源
at Jingdezhen, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1989, 吉慶堂，香港，2010年1月13日
cat. no. 38.

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AN INCISED YELLOW-GLAZED ‘FLORAL’ DISH 清雍正 黃釉暗刻纏枝花卉紋盤
MARK AND PERIOD OF YONGZHENG
《大清雍正年製》款
the base with a six-character mark in underglaze blue within
a double circle 來源
Diameter 4½ in., 11.4 cm
倫敦蘇富比1998年11月18日，編號964
PROVENANCE
Sotheby’s London, 18th November 1998, lot 964.

$ 8,000-12,000

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