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PROPERTY OF A LADY
女史珍藏
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A FINE PAIR OF PINK-GROUND FAMILLE
ROSE ‘MEDALLION’ BOWLS

DAOGUANG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARKS IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE
AND OF THE PERIOD (1821-1850)
The exterior of each bowl is delicately enamelled with stylised
lotus sprays on a pink sgraffiato ground reserved with four circular
panels of flowering shrubs and trees. The interior is painted
in underglaze-blue on a white ground with a rabbit below a
paulownia tree in a roundel at the centre below four composite
flowering shrubs at the sides.
5æ in. (14.8 cm.) diam., box (2)
HK$1,500,000-2,500,000 US$200,000-320,000

PROVENANCE
The Yangzhitang Collection
The Yangzhitang Collection of Imperial Porcelain of the Late
Qing Dynasty, sold at Christie’s Singapore, 30 March 1997, lot 270
Sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 1 December 2010, lot 3207
EXHIBITED
Art Gallery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Imperial
Porcelain of Late Qing From the Simon Kwan Collection, 1983,
Catalogue, p. 63, no. 37 (one illustrated)
A pair of bowls of this design in the Hong Kong Museum of Art was
included in their exhibition The Wonders of the Potter's Palette, Hong
Kong, 1984, illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 103; and another in the
Roemer Museum Hildesheim by S. Lee, Selected Far Eastern Art in
the Yale University Art Gallery, no. 389. A single example in the Musée
Guimet is illustrated by D. Lion-Goldschmidt, Les Poteries et Porcelaines
Chinoises, pl XXVII (D); and one in the National Gallery of Victoria
was included in the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Exhibition of late
Chinese Imperial Porcelain, 1980, illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 16. A
similar pair was sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 31 October 1994, lot 675.

清道光 粉紅地軋道外粉彩內青花開光花卉玉兔紋盌一對
六字篆書款
來源
養志堂舊藏
養志堂珍藏晚清御製瓷器專場拍賣，新加坡佳士得，1997 年
3 月 30 日於，拍品 270 號
香港佳士得，2010 年 12 月 1 日，拍品 3207 號
展覽 (detail 細部)
香港中文大學文物舘，《晚清官窯瓷器》，1983 年，圖錄圖
版37號（其一）

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