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94 SOTHEBY’S NEW YORK 14 MARCH 2017 MING: THE INTERVENTION OF IMPERIAL TASTE

A RARE WUCAI ‘LOTUS SCROLL’ Emil Hultmark (1872-1943) 148
TRIPOD CENSER AND COVER 1990 11 13 173
WANLI MARKS AND PERIOD 2002 3 21

formed of three sections, the censer body of low cylindrical Leopold Reideister Ming-Porzellane ind schwedischen
form supported on three ruyi-form feet below a anged rim, Sammlungen
vividly painted around the exterior with foliate lotus scrolls 1935 46(c)
with blossoms in blue, red and white, between lotus sprays
on the feet, and a blue-ground classic scroll at the rim, the
interior tted with a dish-shaped porcelain liner decorated
with fruiting and owering branches of peach enclosed in
lobed panels against a blue lattice ground, inscribed with
the six-character mark, further surmounted by a domed
reticulated cover with blue and red diapers within a border
of detached classic scroll segments and a composite oral
scroll around the sides, all divided by line borders, the base
partially glazed and inscribed in a countersunk medallion
with the second six-character mark within double circles (3)

Diameter 8⅝ in., 21.8 cm

PROVENANCE
Collection of Emil Hultmark (1872-1943), Stockholm,
Sweden.
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 13th November 1990, lot 148.
Christie’s New York, 21st March 2002, lot 173.

LITERATURE
Leopold Reideister, Ming-Porzellane ind schwedischen
Sammlungen, Berlin, Leipzig, 1935, pl. 46(c).

$ 40,000-60,000