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A FAMILLE-VERTE ‘EROTIC BEAUTY’ DISH
QING DYNASTY, KANGXI PERIOD
the shallow rounded sides rising to a gently everted rim,
the interior painted with an elegant courtesan sitting on a
rectangular stool with a woven seat, one diminutive slippered
foot resting lightly on a footstool, the " gure wearing a luxuriant
iron-red skirt and a revealing diaphanous ! oral silk gauze
jacket, attending to stray strand of hair while gazing into a
mirror, the re! ection providing another vantage point revealing
the smiling beauty, the dressing table with various cosmetic
accoutrements and a vase holding a single lotus blossom, a gilt
couplet inscribed to one side and a Mushiju seal mark within a
circle, the base with an artemisia leaf in underglaze blue within
a double circle
Diameter 10⅝ in., 27 cm
PROVENANCE
Bluett & Sons, London.
Collection of Sidney T. Cook (1910-1964), and thence by
descent.
$ 8,000-12,000
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Bluett & Sonsdࡐ౱
Sidney T. Cook (1910-1964) ϗᔛdϤܝ࢕ૄෂו
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A FAMILLE-VERTE ‘EROTIC BEAUTY’ DISH
QING DYNASTY, KANGXI PERIOD
the shallow sides gently curving to an everted rim, the interior
painted with a luxuriantly attired woman gazing into a tasseled
mirror set into a cosmetic box, and adding " nishing touches to
an elaborate coi& ure adorned with an ornate gilt diadem, the
dressing table strewn with various combs and cosmetics, a lit
candle indicating nighttime, a shawl draped over a yokeback
chair and a blue silk gauze wrap tossed casually atop a stool
nearby, inscribed in gilt with a couplet and with an iron-red
Mushiju square seal mark, the base with an apocryphal
Chenghua mark in underglaze blue
Diameter 10½ in., 26.7 cm
PROVENANCE
John Sparks, Ltd., London.
Collection of Sidney T. Cook (1910-1964), and thence by
descent.
$ 6,000-8,000
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John Sparks Ltd dࡐ౱
Sidney T Cook 1910 1964 dϤܝ࢕ૄෂו

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