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PROPERTY FROM A EUROPEAN NOBLE COLLECTION

LOTS 144-146
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A RED AND GREEN-ENAMELLED ‘BOYS’ BOWL
JIAJING MARK AND PERIOD
of square section with deep rounded sides rising from
a slightly tapered foot to a flared rim, decorated to the
exterior with eight boys at play set in a landscape with
vegetation and rockwork, all between narrow borders at
the rim and foot, the interior painted with a further boy
flying a kite within a square panel, all reserved against
a rich iron-red ground, the base inscribed with a six-
character reign mark in underglaze blue
Width 13.5 cm, 5¼in.
PROVENANCE
Collection of Sigisbert Chretien Bosch Reitz (1860-
1938). Bequeathed to his godson Jonkheer G.C. Six van
Wimmenum (1892-1975).
Thence by family descent.

£ 12,000-18,000
HK$ 118,000-176,000 US$ 15,000-22,500
明嘉靖 紅地綠彩嬰戲圖方盌
《大明嘉靖年製》款

來源
Sigisbert Chretien Bosch Reitz（1860-1938年）收藏，
Siqisbert Chretien Bosch Reitz (1860–1938) was a 曾於1914至1926年擔任紐約大都會博物館亞洲藝
Dutch artist who trained as a painter in Munich and 術部策展人，此後由義子 Jonkheer G.C. Six van
Paris before traveling to Japan in 1900, where he
studied woodblock printing. In 1914 he became curator Wimmenum（1892-1975年）家族傳承
of the Asian Art collection at the Metropolitan Museum
of Art, New York (1914-1926).

Mark

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