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THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN                                                  清乾隆  粉青釉刻折枝花果紋大盌  
                                                                                                                                    六字篆書款
     3337
                                                                                  來源
     A FINE LARGE MOULDED CELADON-GLAZED                                          靜觀堂珍藏,香港佳士得,1996年11月3日,拍品570號
                                                                                  埃斯肯納齊,倫敦
     ‘FLOWERS AND FRUITS’ BOWL                                                    玫茵堂珍藏,香港蘇富比,2012年10月9日,拍品33號

     QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE                          著錄
     AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)                                                《徐氏藝術館》,香港,1991年,圖版127
                                                                                  《徐氏藝術館.陶瓷篇IV.清代》,香港,1995年,圖版36
     The bowl is well potted with deep rounded sides rising to a                  康蕊君,《玫茵堂中國陶瓷》,倫敦,1994-2010年,卷4,
     flaring rim. The exterior is elegantly moulded in shallow relief             編號1804
     with sprigs of lychee, pomegranate, peach and citrus, set between
     sprays of lotus, prunus, magnolia and peony, all under a fine
     bubble-suffused even pale sea-green celadon glaze.
     13 Ω in. (34 cm.) diam., box

     HK$3,200,000-5,000,000 US$420,000-650,000

     PROVENANCE

     The Jingguantang Collection, sold at Christie’s Hong Kong,
     3rd November 1996, lot 570
     Eskenazi Ltd., London
     The Meiyintang Collection, sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong,
     9 October 2012, lot 33

     LITERATURE

     The Tsui Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1991, pl. 127
     The Tsui Museum of Art, Chinese Ceramics IV: Qing Dynasty, Hong
     Kong, 1995, pl. 36
     Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection,
     London, 1994-2010, Vol. 4, no. 1804

     A similar example is illustrated by du Boulay, Christie’s Pictorial History
     of Chinese Ceramics, p. 219, col. pl. 2. A comparable bowl but made in
     the Yongzheng period from the British Rail Pension Fund was sold at
     Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 16 May 1989, lot 57.

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