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A FINE AND EXTREMELY RARE BLUE AND WHITE

‘FLORAL’ BOWL
MARK AND PERIOD OF XUANDE

明宣德 青花纏枝花卉紋盌

《大明宣德年製》款

well potted with deep rounded sides rising from a short foot to 來源：
flaring rim, the exterior decorated with a leafy composite floral 艾弗瑞．克拉克夫人（約1890-1976年）收藏
scroll bearing various blooms of lotus, peony, pomegranate, 楊永德收藏
camellia and chrysanthemum, between a key-fret border and 1983年購自上述藏家
an upright lappet band, the interior centred with a medallion 展覽：
enclosing a lotus bloom wreathed by scrolling foliage, 《Blue and White Porcelain from the Collection of Mrs Alfred Clark》，Spink
surrounded by a further composite floral scroll around the
& Son，倫敦，1974年，編號19
cavetto, all within a frieze of florets borne on scrolling foliage, 《求知雅集珍藏中國古陶瓷展》，香港中文大學文物館，香港，1981
the base inscribed with a six-character reign mark within a 年，編號66
double circle 《天民樓藏瓷》，香港藝術館，香港，1987年，編號21（盌心照片誤植
19.5 cm, 7⅝ in.
於編號22）
《天民樓青花瓷特展》，鴻禧美術館，台北，1992 年，編號37
PROVENANCE
《天民樓青花瓷特展》，上海博物館，上海，1996年
Collection of Mrs Alfred Clark (c.1890-1976).
Collection of Yeung Wing Tak. 出版：
Acquired from the above, 1983. 《天民樓珍藏青花瓷器》，上海，1996年，編號39
EXHIBITED
Blue and White Porcelain from the Collection of Mrs Alfred
Clark, Spink & Son, London, 1974, cat. no. 19.
Exhibition of Ancient Chinese Ceramics from the Collection of
the Kau Chi Society of Chinese Art, Hong Kong, 1981, cat. no.
66.
Chinese Porcelain in the S.C. Ko Tianminlou Collection, Hong
Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1987, cat. no. 21 (interior
view incorrectly illustrated as cat. no. 22).
Blue and White Porcelain from the Tianminlou Collection, Chang
Foundation, Taipei, 1992, no. 37.
Tianminlou qinghua ci tezhan [Special exhibition of blue and
white porcelain from the Tianminlou collection], Shanghai
Museum, Shanghai, 1996.
LITERATURE
Blue and White Porcelain from the Collection of Tianminlou
Foundation, Shanghai, 1996, no. 39.

HK$ 4,000,000-6,000,000
US$ 510,000-765,000

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