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A BISCUIT-GLAZED FAMILLE-VERTE ‘DUCKS’ A FAMILLE-ROSE ‘PEONY’ WATERPOT
BOWL REPUBLIC PERIOD
20TH CENTURY the compressed globular body rising from a narrow tapering
the rounded body resting on a straight foot rising to a slightly foot to high rounded shoulders and an incurved rim,
everted rim, the exterior painted with a continuous scene of enameled on one side with peony branches in varying stages
ducks resting amongst rockwork against a turquoise ground, of bloom, centering a lush pink blossom with delicately
the base inscribed with an apocryphal six-character Kangxi shaded and frilled petals, set against broad pointed leaves
mark in underglaze blue in two shades of green, with insects flying nearby, the base
Diameter 3⅞ in., 10 cm with a Hongxian yuzhi mark in iron-red enamel
Diameter 5¼ in., 13.4 cm
EXHIBITED
Ch’ing Polychrome Exhibition, The Oriental Ceramic Society PROVENANCE
of Hong Kong, Fung Ping Shan Museum, Hong Kong, 1977, Collection of Kenneth R. Malcolm (1908-1984), coll. no. 180.
cat. no. 36.
Exhibition of Ancient Chinese Ceramics from the Collection of LITERATURE
the Kau Chi Society of Chinese Art, Art Gallery, The Chinese Loan Exhibition of the Ch’ing Dynasty, Oriental Ceramic Society
University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 1981, cat. no. 145. and The Arts Council Gallery, London, 1964, cat. no. 245.
$ 6,000-8,000 $ 6,000-8,000

二十世紀 素三彩鴛鴦蘆葦圖盌
《大清康熙年製》仿款 民國 粉彩牡丹圖水盂
《洪憲御製》款
展覽：
202 《清代彩瓷》，香港東方陶瓷學會，香港大學馮平山 來源： 204
博物館，香港，1977年，編號36 Kenneth R. Malcolm (1908-1984) 收藏，收藏編號180
《求知雅集珍藏•中國古陶瓷展》，香港中文大學文 展覽：
物館，香港，1981年，編號145 《Loan Exhibition of the Ch’ing Dynasty》，東方陶瓷
學會及 The Arts Council Gallery，倫敦，1964年，編
號245

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A MIRROR-BLACK-GLAZED AND GILT- A PAIR OF LATER-ENAMELED FAMILLE-ROSE
DECORATED ‘LANDSCAPE’ VASE ‘FLORAL’ BOWLS
QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY MARKS AND PERIOD OF YONGZHENG
the elongated ovoid body swelling to high rounded shoulders each with deep rounded sides rising from a straight foot,
and sweeping into a tall flaring neck and everted rim, the exteriors later-enameled with peonies on leafy stems
the exterior glazed a glossy black and gilt-painted with entwined amidst other flowers with butterflies in flight, the
a continuous idyllic lakeside scene, with two gentlemen base inscribed with a six-character mark within a double
conversing by the banks accompanied by an attendant, a circle in underglaze blue (2)
fisherman on his sampan on the water, a thatched hut in the Diameter 4 in., 10.2 cm
distance, all surrounded by craggy cliffs, rolling hills, and
towering trees, the neck similarly decorated with a fisherman PROVENANCE
casting a rod Christie’s New York, 3rd June 1993, lot 294.
Height 19⅝ in., 49.8 cm For a prototype of this design, compare a Yongzheng
mark and period famille-rose enameled bowl in the Baur
PROVENANCE
Collection, illustrated in John Ayers, The Baur Collection
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 9th November 1982, lot 269. Geneva: Chinese Ceramics, vol. 4, Geneva, 1964, pl. A599.
$ 10,000-15,000 $ 2,000-3,000

清十九世紀 烏金釉描金山水人物圖瓶 清雍正 後加彩粉彩牡丹圖盌一對
來源： 《大清雍正年製》款
香港蘇富比1982年11月9日，編號269
來源：
紐約佳士得1993年6月3日，編號294 205

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