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A RARE BLUE AND WHITE ‘MYTHICAL BEASTS’ BOWL
SHUNZHI FOUR-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF
THE PERIOD (1644-1661)
The bowl is decorated on the interior with a central medallion of a qilin Shunzhi-marked porcelains are extremely rare. The present ‘mythical beasts’
supporting books on vapor issuing from its mouth, below a band of bowl belongs to a small group of blue and white wares bearing Shunzhi
Suihansanyou (Three Friends of Winter) at the rim, and on the exterior with four-character marks that are decorated with fve mythical beasts. A pair
qilin, elephant, tiger and leopard. of dishes of this type in the Tianminlou Collection is illustrated in Blue and
White Porcelain from the Tianminlou Collection, Chang Foundation, Taipei,
6√ in. (17.5 cm.) diam.
1990, pp. 70-72. A similar pair of dishes was sold at Christie’s Hong Kong,
28 October 2002, lot 696. Another dish of this type, formerly with Messrs.
$10,000-15,000
Bluett, is illustrated by Soame Jenyns, Later Chinese Porcelain, pl. IX, 2.
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