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ANOTHER PROPERTY
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A BLUE AND WHITE ‘LOTUS SCROLL’ BOWL
KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A
DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1662-1722)
The bowl is decorated in the style of Ming-dynasty ‘Palace’ bowls with a leafy
meander bearing six stylized blossoms on the exterior, a band of lappets above the
foot, and the interior with a single fower in the central roundel.
6¡ in. (16.2 cm.) diam.
$12,000-15,000

PROVENANCE
Sotheby’s New York, 22 March 1995, lot 283.
Sotheby’s New York, 23 March 2010, lot 7.
Private collection, United States.
An almost identical bowl, in the National Palace Museum, is illustrated in Blue
and White Ware of the Ch’ing Dynasty, Book 1, Hong Kong, 1968, pp. 56-57, col.
pls. 12, 12a, and 12b, and another in the Art Gallery of the Chinese University of
Hong Kong, the gift of B. Y. Lam Foundation, is illustrated by Cheng Xiaozhong
and P. Y. K. Lam, Qing Imperial Porcelain of the Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong
Reigns, Hong Kong, 1995, no. 19. See, also, a very similar Kangxi mark and period
bowl sold at Christie’s New York, 22 March 2019, lot 1821.
清康熙 青花纏枝蓮紋盌 雙圈六字楷書款
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