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Invoice, wucai bowl

193 The design for this type of ‘dragon and phoenix’ bowl was first
A wucai ‘dragon and phoenix’ bowl developed in the Kangxi reign, and continued throughout the 18th
Daoguang seal mark and of the period century and into the late Qing dynasty. The Qianlong bowl in the
Finely painted around the exterior in underglaze blue and enamelled present lot showcases how areas of the design were first executed in
with iron-red and green writhing five-clawed dragons in pursuit of underglaze blue, with the rest of the decoration completed with low-
flaming pearls, divided by descending phoenix, all amidst blossoming fired enamels. Similar Daoguang mark and period bowls have been
leafy scrolls, below a band of linked ruyi-heads and bajixiang emblems published including: one from the Simon Kwan collection exhibited
at the rim, the interior centred with a medallion enclosing a single at the The Chinese University of Hong Kong, illustrated in Imperial
writhing iron-red dragon amidst flame scrolls, the base with a six- Porcelain of Late Qing from the Kwan Collection, Hong Kong, 1983,
character zhuanshu seal mark; together with a blue and white bowl, p.68, no. 44; and another illustrated by R.Krahl, Chinese Ceramics
Qianlong seal mark and of the period, unusually without the enamels. from the Gulexuan Collection, Lünen, 2003, no.139.
Each 15.6cm (6 1/8in) diam. (2).

HK$80,000 - 120,000 此類龍鳳紋盌最初見於康熙一朝，至十八世紀到晚清為常見的題材。
US$7,700 - 10,000 其他相似的清道光帶款例子可參考《關氏所藏晚清官窰瓷器》，香
港，1983年，頁68，編號44；也見R.Krahl，《Chinese Ceramics
清乾隆 青花葉紋盌 青花「大清乾隆年製」篆書款 from the Gulexuan Collection》，呂嫩，2003年，編號139。
清道光 五彩龍鳳趕珠紋盌 青花「大清道光年製」篆書款

Provenance 來源:
H.R.N Norton, London, sold to J.H. Myrtle on 12 October 1956 (wucai
bowl)
J.H.Myrtle (both bowls)
Spink & Son (Australia) Pty Ltd., Sydney, acquired by the present
owner on 1 September 1988 (wucai bowl)
An Australian private collection

Exhibited and Published 展覽和出版:
Chinese Ceramics, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, August-
September 1965, Catalogue no.149 (blue and white bowl)
1000 Years of Chinese Ceramics, National Trust, Lindesay, Darling
Point, Sydney, November 1970, Catalogue nos.74 and 75
Spink & Son (Australia) Pty Ltd., Acanthus, April 1988, p.21 (wucai
bowl)
H.Myrtle, Late Chinese Imperial Porcelain, Art Gallery of New South
Wales, Sydney, 2 August 1980 - 28 September 1980, p.19, no.19
(wucai bowl)

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