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THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
士紳珍藏
3082

A FINE CAFÉ-AU-LAIT-GLAZED BOWL 清乾隆 紫金釉弦紋盌 六字篆書款
QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE 來源:
AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
紐約佳士得，2006年9月19日，拍品380號
The rounded sides rising from the shallow foot to a slightly flared 亞洲私人舊藏
rim and encircled by a double bow-string band, covered inside and 拍賣於香港蘇富比，2013年4月8日，拍品3068號
out with a slightly iridescent glaze of reddish-brown tone, the base
glazed white.
6æ in. (17 cm.) diam., box
HK$300,000-500,000 US$39,000-64,000
P R O V E NAN C E :
Sold at Christie’s New York, 19 September 2006, lot 380
An Asian private collection
Offered at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 8 April 2013, lot 3068
It is unusual to find a bowl of this type with a Qianlong mark, but one in
the collection of the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, is illustrated by
He Li, Chinese Ceramics, A New Comprehensive Survey, New York, 1996,
p. 284, no. 565. See, also, the bowl sold at Christie's New York, 29 March
2006, lot 459.
For a Kangxi precursor of this Qianlong example see the bowl in the
Percival David Foundation, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's
Great Collections, vol. 6, Tokyo, 1982, no. 233. The eight-character mark
on the base may be translated, 'made for the Zhonghe Pavilion in the renzi (mark)
year of Kangxi', corresponding to 1672. Yongzheng-marked examples are
represented by one illustrated in Old Oriental Ceramics Donated by Mr.
Yokogawa, Tokyo National Museum, 1953, pl. 389; and another included
in the exhibition, Chinese Antiquities from the Brian S. McElney Collection,
Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1987, no. 100.

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