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fig. 1 A blue and white ‘dice’ bowl, Yongzheng mark and of the period;
© The Tsui Museum of Art, Hong Kong

53 The design of the present bowl has been inspired by early Ming Dynasty
A fine and rare blue and white ‘dice’ bowl Xuande-period thickly-potted ‘dice’ bowls, such as those illustrated
Yongzheng six-character mark in a line below the rim and of the period in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Blue
Sturdily potted with rounded sides on a short foot and painted on the and White Porcelain with Underglaze Red (I), Hong Kong, Catalogue
exterior in varying tones to simulate ‘heaping and piling’ with a band nos.144-148 (variously painted with scrolls of pomegranate, peony,
of flowering lotus scroll amidst curling leaves in the Ming style, above a lotus, Buddhist Emblems and lingzhi).
band of S-shaped scrolls at the foot and below crested waves at the rim
enclosing a panel containing the six-character mark. A similar bowl, Yongzheng mark and of the period, formerly in the
29.2cm (11½in) diam. T.Y.Chao and T.T.Tsui Collections (see fig.1 above), was sold at Christie’s
£80,000 - 120,000 Hong Kong, 27 May 2008, lot 24A. For another see Sotheby’s New York,
HK$940,000 - 1,400,000 CNY750,000 - 1,100,000 23 March 2011, lot 735.

清雍正 青花纏枝蓮紋碗 青花「大清雍正年製」楷書款

Provenance: Sotheby’s London, 19 June 2002, lot 57
The Inder Rieden Collection

來源：倫敦蘇富比，2002年6月19日，拍品編號57
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