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A COPPER-RED GLAZED STEMBOWL See a pair from the collection of E. T. Chow, sold in our
YONGZHENG SEAL MARK AND PERIOD Hong Kong rooms, 25th November 1980, lot 65. For similar
stembowls sold in these rooms, see ones sold, 21st March
with deep flared sides supported by a slightly splayed hollow 1980, lot 223; 4th December 1985, lot 269; and 18th
stem encircled by a wide molded filet, the exterior glazed a September 1987, lot 441. Compare also examples sold in
rich warm red, the interior and base glazed white, the latter our London rooms; one, 13th December 1988, lot 229; a
inscribed with a six-character seal mark in underglaze blue pair, 12th June 2003, lot 187; and a single stembowl, 9th
Diameter 7½ in., 19 cm November 2011, lot 99.
PROVENANCE
$ 20,000-30,000
Guy Mayer Gallery, New York (according to label).
Marchant, London, March 2007.
LITERATURE 清雍正 紅釉高足盌
Karen Thomson, ed., The Blema and H. Arnold Steinberg 《大清雍正年製》款
Collection, Montreal, 2015, pl. 158.
The Qing Court’s reverence for tradition is evident in its 來源
refinement of early Ming palace ritual wares, as exemplified Guy Mayer Gallery，紐約 (標籤)
by the present stembowl. A similar example is illustrated Marchant，倫敦，2007年3月
in John Ayers, Chinese Porcelain: The S. C. Ko Tianminlou
Collection, Hong Kong, 1987, pl. 126. Another was exhibited 出版
in Ch’ing Porcelain from the Wah Kwong Collection, Chinese Karen Thomson 編，《The Blema and H. Arnold
University of Hong Kong, 1973, cat. no. 4.
Steinberg Collection》，蒙特利爾，2015年，圖版158

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