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PROPERTY FROM A NEW YORK PRIVATE COLLECTION Jingdezhen chutu Yuan Ming guanyao ciqi / Yuan’s and Ming’s A COPPER-RED-GLAZED BOWL
A MING-STYLE COPPER-RED ‘THREE FISH’ Imperial Porcelain Unearthed from Jingdezhen, Yan-Huang MARK AND PERIOD OF YONGZHENG
STEM BOWL Art Museum, Beijing, 1999, cat. no. 193; and another in the the base with a six-character mark in underglaze blue within
National Palace Museum, Taiwan, illustrated in Mingdai
MARK AND PERIOD OF YONGZHENG Xuande guanyao jinghua tezhan tulu / Catalogue of the a double circle
Diameter 5⅞ in., 14.8 cm
the interior of the stem with a six-character mark in Special Exhibition of Selected Hsüan-te Imperial Porcelains
underglaze blue of the Ming Dynasty, National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1998, PROVENANCE
Diameter 6⅛ in., 15.5 cm cat. no. 99, together with two similar stem cups of smaller
size, cat. nos 81 and 87. Hong Kong Private Collection.
Sotheby’s New York, 21st September 2021, lot 138.
PROVENANCE
$ 30,000-50,000
Christie’s Hong Kong, 8th October 1990, lot 559. $ 12,000-15,000
See a few published examples of this type, one illustrated in
John Ayers, Chinese Ceramics, The Koger Collection, London, 清雍正 釉裏紅三魚紋高足盌 清雍正 紅釉盌
1985, pl. 97; and another from the T.Y. Chao Collection,
included in the exhibition Ming and Ch’ing Porcelain from 《大清雍正年製》款 《大清雍正年製》款
the Collection of the T.Y. Chao Family Foundation, Hong
Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1978, cat. no. 75, sold in 來源
our London rooms, 8th July 1974, lot 280 and then again 香港佳士得1990年10月8日，編號559 來源
in our Hong Kong rooms, 19th May 1987, lot 264. Compare 香港私人收藏
also a closely related example, previously in the Meiyintang 紐約蘇富比2021年9月21日，編號138 215
Collection, sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 8th April 2013, lot 36.
For a Ming prototype of this design, see a Xuande reign-
marked stem bowl, excavated from the Xuande stratum of
the Ming imperial kiln site, and included in the exhibition

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A COPPER-RED-GLAZED STEM BOWL
SEAL MARK AND PERIOD OF YONGZHENG
the base with a six-character seal mark in underglaze blue,
Japanese wood box (3)
Diameter 7⅜ in., 18.6 cm
⊖ $ 20,000-30,000

清雍正 紅釉高足盌
《大清雍正年製》款

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