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22 A blue and white ‘fish and lotus’ bowl
28 | Bonhams Jiajing six-character mark and of the period
Brightly painted around the exterior with four fish swimming between four
clumps of lotus with quatre-foliate sprays of waterweed, all above a band
of ruyi-head above the foot, the interior with a single fish amid lotus and
waterweed above foaming waves.
38cm (15in) diam.
£6,000 - 8,000
HK$71,000 - 94,000 CNY56,000 - 75,000

明嘉靖 青花魚藻紋碗 青花「大明嘉靖年製」楷書款

Provenance: Christie’s Hong Kong, 28 November 2005, lot 1424

來源：香港佳士得，2005年11月28日，拍品編號1424

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A small blue and white rectangular tray
Wanli six-character mark and of the period
Raised on a low tapering foot, the delicate tray brightly painted on the
interior with a group of two orchids in the well and peony, chrysanthemum
and daisy on the sides, the exterior with fruiting sprays of two peaches on
the longer sides and a single peach on the shorter sides, Japanese silk bag
and wooden box.
6.5cm (2½in) long (2).
£3,000 - 5,000
HK$35,000 - 59,000 CNY28,000 - 47,000

明萬曆 青花花果紋方碗 青花「大明萬曆年製」楷書款

Production during the Wanli period included many porcelain objects for the
scholar’s desk, including pen boxes, seal paste boxes and small trays such
as the present lot. Compare a related circular box and cover, also with a
Wanli six-character mark, illustrated by J.Harrison-Hall, Ming Ceramics in
the British Museum, London, 2001, no.11:128.