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A RARE INSCRIBED BLUE-GLAZED Compare a 17th century blue-glazed bowl, with ⋩ᶫᶾ䲨ġġġ啵慱再嵛䚌
DISH a later-inscribed imperial poem composed
by the Qianlong emperor in the second
17TH CENTURY 揓㔯烉
spring month of the bingshen cyclical year,
ᾖℏ䱦昞⭀䩘⎵ġ⥳⬳⍲Ṳ普⣏ㆸġ
the gently rounded sides rising from a recessed corresponding to 1776, in the Percival David
base, covered overall with a thick deep blue Collection, now in the British Museum, London, ⣑啵⻴嵛屜ġ㈲䍑ᶨ⽝⏇ġḦ昮⹂ㆴ㶭␴
glaze su" used with a subtle network of Þ ne illustrated in Stacey Pierson and Amy Barnes, ⽉柴
dark crackles, the rim and base dressed in A Collector’s Vision: Ceramics for the Qianlong 揓⌘烉⎌楁
brown, later inscribed around the interior of the Emperor, London, 2002, pl. 86.
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countersunk base with a poem eulogizing Guan A bowl of closely related form and size with a
wares from the Xiuneisi kiln, accompanied by similar crackled blue glaze to the exterior but Ⱉᷕ⓮㚫炻剅≈⒍炻1937⸜11㚰1㖍
an inscription reading Qianlong gengxu qinghe a celadon glaze to the interior, attributed to ⎚吪剔ɀ䑲偗ᶱᶾ炷1978⸜必炸㓞啷
yuti (‘composed by the Qianlong emperor in circa 1640-1650, is illustrated in Sir Michael
the fourth month of the cyclical year gengxu’), Butler, Margaret Medley, and Stephen Little,
followed by a two-character seal reading Seventeenth-Century Chinese Porcelain from
guxiang (‘scent of archaism’), wood stand (2) the Butler Family Collection, Alexandria, VA,
Diameter 5¾ in., 14.7 cm 1990, pl. 73.
PROVENANCE
Yamanaka & Co., Chicago, 1st November 1937.
Collection of Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978).
$ 30,000-50,000

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