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A bowl reputedly from the Summer Palace, Beijing, and later the collections of Woodthorpe
K.L. Dawes, J.F. Woodthorpe and Frederick M. Mayer, was sold in our London
rooms, 20th May 1949, lot 84, and 6th April 1954, lot 90, and at Christie’s London, 1956 6 5 112
25th June 1974, lot 90; a second bowl from the Woodthorpe collection, sold in our
London rooms 5th June 1956, lot 112, was included in the Venice exhibition 1954 1954
together with a bowl from the collection of Sir Harry and Lady Garner, sold in our
London rooms, 21st November 1961, lot 36, see Mostra d’Arte Cinese/Exhibition 1961 11 21
of Chinese Art, Palazzo Ducale, Venice, 1954, cat. nos 642 and 643; another sold
in our London rooms, 24th March 1964, lot 98 and now in the collection of the 36 Mostra d Arte Cinese
Asia Society, New York, is illustrated in Denise Patry Leidy, Treasures of Asian
Art: The Asia Society’s Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection, New York, 1954 642
1994, pl. 176; one from the collection of Major L.F. Hay was sold in our London
rooms, 16th June 1939, lot 92; one from the R.H.R. Palmer collection and later the 643 1964 3
Tsui Museum of Art, Hong Kong, was sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 17th January
1989, lot 567, and 3rd November 1996, lot 546; a bowl from the collections of 24 98
President Herbert Hoover, Mr. and Mrs. Allan Hoover, and Ira and Nancy Koger
was sold in our New York rooms, 27th November 1990, lot 6; one from the Su Lin Denise Patry Leidy Treasures of Asian
An collection, was sold in these rooms, 31st October 1995, lot 315; a bowl from
the Manno Museum, Osaka, was sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 31st May 2010, Art The Asia Society s Mr and Mrs John D
lot 1856; and a bowl from the collection of Roger Pilkington was sold in our Hong
Kong rooms, 6th April 2016, lot 20. Rockefeller 3rd Collection 1994
176 L F Hay
1939 6 16 92
R H R Palmer
1989 1 17
567 1996 11 3 546
Koger 6 10 31
1990 11 27 1995
1856
315 31 2016
2010 5
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