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A FINE BLUE AND WHITE ‘GRAPE’ CHARGER
MING DYNASTY, YONGLE PERIOD

明永樂 青花葡萄紋折沿盤

very finely potted with rounded sides rising from a short 來源：
tapered foot to a wide everted rim, superbly painted in Otto Harriman 夫人 Gertrude Harriman 女士收藏， 北愛爾蘭
rich inky tones of cobalt blue accented with characteristic Dunmurry，直至1970年
‘heaping and piling’, the interior decorated with a medallion F. and H. Hitchman 伉儷收藏，自1970年始
enclosing three pendent bunches of grapes suspending from 香港蘇富比1981年11月24日，編號81
a gnarled vine issuing broad curling leaves and coiling tendrils,
surrounded on the cavetto with a leafy composite floral scroll
bearing twelve flowering blooms, including chrysanthemum,
lotus, peony, carnation and morning glory, all within a border
of crashing waves on the rim, the exterior similarly rendered
with a different composite floral scroll of twelve floral
blossoms, including a lingzhi bloom, the unglazed base fired
with subtle orange specks
37.3 cm, 14⅝ in.
PROVENANCE
Collection of Mrs Gertrude Harriman, wife of Mr Otto
Harriman, Dunmurry, Northern Ireland, until 1970.
Collection of F. and H. Hitchman, since 1970.
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 24th November 1981, lot 81.

HK$ 6,000,000-8,000,000
US$ 765,000-1,020,000