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Fig. 1 Underglaze-blue-decorated Fig. 2 Blue and white meiping, Qianlong
yellow-enameled meiping, Qianlong seal seal mark and of the period (1736-1795).
mark and of the period (1736-1795). Sold Sold Christie’s Hong Kong, 1 December
Christie’s Hong Kong, 20 April 1996, 2010, lot 2970.
lot 56.

A Qianlong-marked meiping of similar form and decoration to the Foundation held at the Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1978, no. 79, one
present example, from the T.T. Tsui Collection, is illustrated in The of which is illustrated in Chinese Porcelain. The S. C. Ko Tianminlou
Tsui Museum of Art. Chinese Ceramics IV - Qing Dynasty, Hong Collection, Part II, Blue-and-White Ware, Hong Kong, 1987, pp.
Kong, 1995, no. 88, and was sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 28 April 90-91, no. 63. Several have been sold at Christie’s Hong Kong: one
1996, lot 56. (Fig. 1) A pair of Qianlong-marked yellow-enameled formerly from the Robert Chang Collection, 1 December 2009, lot
underglaze blue-decorated meiping and covers, with more rounded 1888; one from the Shorenstein Collection, 1 December 2010, lot
bodies than the present example, was sold at Sotheby’s New York, 2970 (Fig. 2); and a pair, 30 December 2011, lot 2942.
31 May 1989, lot 183.
The present meiping was formerly in the collection of Paul
A number of blue and white broad-shouldered meiping with Kollsman, a German-American inventor who, together with his
Qianlong marks have been published, including one in the brother Otto, founded Kollsman Instruments Co. in Brooklyn, New
Shenyang Palace Museum illustrated in The Prime Cultural York, in 1929. Kollsman achieved extraodinary success with his
Relics Collected by the Shenyang Imperial Palace Museum, The new design of an altimeter for the cutting edge aircraft industry.
Chinaware Volume The First Part, Shenyang, 2008, pp. 32-33, no. Considered by far the most accurate instrument of its time, the
17; one in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Kollsman altimeter was bought by the US Navy, and dominated the
Collection of the Palace Museum - 36 - Blue and White Porcelain market by the mid 1930s. Kollsman was a private gentleman, with
with Underglazed Red (III), Hong Kong, 2000, p. 131, no. 117; and a a passion for rare and unsual antiques, with which he furnished his
pair from the T. Y. Chao Collection, included in the exhibition Ming estates in Oyster Bay, New York, and Beverly Hills, California.
and Ch’ing Porcelain from the Collection of the T. Y. Chao Family

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