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A FINE AND RARE CARVED CELADON-GLAZED 清雍正
‘PEONY’ BOWL 青釉淺浮雕纏枝花卉紋盌
MARK AND PERIOD OF YONGZHENG 《大清雍正年製》款
carved on the exterior with a wide frieze of peony blossoms
borne on a leafy scroll, covered overall save for the footring 來源：
with a luminous celadon glaze, the base inscribed with a six- 丹麥工程師 Carl Gimbel（1881-1946年）收藏，曾任北
character reign mark 京大學數學及統計學教授
22.6 cm, 8⅞ in.

PROVENANCE
Collection of Carl Gimbel (1881-1946), Danish engineer and
professor of mathematics and statistics at the Imperial
University, Beijing.

HK$ 700,000-900,000
US$ 90,500-116,000
A closely related Yongzheng celadon bowl from the collection
of Professor Edward T. Hall, inventory no. 541, carved with a
ruyi head design, illustrated in Sotheby’s Hong Kong Twenty
Years, Hong Kong, 1993, no. 314, was sold in these rooms,
2nd May 2000, lot 527. Compare also a similar bowl from the
collection of Ira and Nancy Koger, sold in our New York rooms,
27th November 1990, lot 29.
Carl Gimbel (1881-1946) arrived in China in 1908, the last
years of the Qing dynasty, to set up the Imperial Waterworks in
Beijing, and was professor of mathematics and statistics at the
Imperial University, Beijing. In the mid 1910s, he was appointed
a district superintendent in the Chinese salt administration,
where he served in different part of China until the late 1920s,
when he retired and returned to Denmark. He was awarded
the rank of Mandarin of the third degree, a rare honour for a
foreigner.

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