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AN INSCRIBED ‘DEHUA’ BOWL
17TH CENTURY
stoutly potted with low, rounded sides rising to
a gently everted rim, the interior incised with
a three-line poem signed Yu Zhai (‘Jade hall’),
the base impressed with a small square illegible
seal, covered overall in an ivory glaze
Diameter 6⅛ in., 15.6 cm
an inscribed ‘Dehua’ alms bowl, also with
the verses of the poem set within recessed
columns, from the stephen Junkunc III
Collection, sold at Christie’s new York, 13th
- 14th september 2018, lot 1160. see also a
17th century ‘Dehua’ bowl of the same size
and shape as the present example, but freely
incised to the interior and exterior with poems
by Du Fu and Li Bai, formerly in the percival
David Collection and now in the British museum
(pDF,a.460).
$ 4,000-7,000

十七世紀 德化白釉詩文盌

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740
A ‘DEHUA’ ARCHAISTIC CENSER
QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY
of gui form set with a pair of stylized dragon-
form loop handles, the globular body supported
on a stepped foot ring and rising to an everted
rim, the exterior of the body impressed a
double-band of keyfret between raised fillets,
covered overall in an even white glaze
Width 6 in., 15.2 cm
$ 6,000-8,000
清十八世紀 德化白釉回紋龍耳爐

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