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A FINE COPPER-RED ‘SANDUO’ BOWL, MARK 清雍正 釉裏紅三多紋盌 《大清雍正年製》 PROPERTY FROM A NEW YORK PRIVATE COLLECTION Jingdezhen chutu Yuan Ming guanyao ciqi / Yuan’s and
AND PERIOD OF YONGZHENG 款 A MING-STYLE COPPER-RED ‘THREE Ming’s Imperial Porcelain Unearthed from Jingdezhen, Yan-
the base with a six-character mark in underglaze blue within FISH’ STEM BOWL, MARK AND PERIOD OF Huang Art Museum, Beijing, 1999, cat. no. 193; and another
in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Mingdai
a double circle YONGZHENG
Diameter 4¾ in., 12 cm Xuande guanyao jinghua tezhan tulu / Catalogue of the
the interior of the stem with a six-character mark in Special Exhibition of Selected Hsüan-te Imperial Porcelains
⊖ $ 10,000-15,000 underglaze blue of the Ming Dynasty, National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1998,
Diameter 6⅛ in., 15.5 cm cat. no. 99, together with two similar stem cups of smaller
size, cat. nos 81 and 87.
PROVENANCE
Christie’s Hong Kong, 8th October 1990, lot 559. $ 15,000-20,000
See a few published examples of this type, one illustrated 清雍正 釉裏紅三魚紋高足盌
in John Ayers, Chinese Ceramics, The Koger Collection,
London, 1985, pl. 97; and another from the T.Y. Chao 《大清雍正年製》款
Collection, included in the exhibition Ming and Ch’ing
Porcelain from the Collection of the T.Y. Chao Family 來源:
Foundation, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1978, 香港佳士得1990年10月8日，編號559
cat. no. 75, sold in our London rooms, 8th July 1974, lot 280
and then again in our Hong Kong rooms, 19th May 1987,
lot 264. Compare also a closely related example, previously
in the Meiyintang 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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