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A RARE DEHUA MODEL OF A FLUTE 明末/清初 德化白釉龍紋簫

LATE MING-EARLY QING DYNASTY, 17TH CENTURY 來源
倫敦邦瀚斯，2013年5月16日，拍品編號19
The cylindrical flute is modelled in the form of a slender hollow 造型類似但無龍紋細節的德化白瓷簫，可參考二例載於
bamboo stalk, with a small triangular notch cut from the top end Donnelly著《Blanc de China》，紐約，1969年，圖版68A，
above two moulded four-clawed dragons encircling a flaming 及倫敦蘇富比2012年11月7日拍賣一例，拍品36號。另可比較
pearl. The shaft is pierced with five holes on one side, the reverse 普孟斐珍藏一隻德化白瓷笛，載於《Blanc de Chine: the Great
with one, and another two at the lower end, all under an even Porcelain of Dehua》，紐約，2002年，圖版B。
glaze of milk-white tone.
60.8 cm. (24 in.) long 3326 NO LOT

HK$200,000-300,000 US$26,000-39,000

PROVENANCE

Sold at Bonham’s London, 16 May 2013, lot 19

For similar xiao but without the detail of the moulded dragon, see two
examples illustrated by P.J. Donnelly, Blanc de Chine, New York, 1969,
pl. 68A., and another sold at Sotheby’s London, 7 November 2012,
lot 36. Compare also a Dehua flute, di in the Robert H. Blumenfield
Collection, illustrated in Blanc de Chine: the Great Porcelain of Dehua,
New York, 2002, p. 32, pl. B.

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