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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE BELGIAN COLLECTION
(LOTS 781-785 INCLUSIVE)
比利時私人珍藏（拍品第781 至785號）
(mark)
(mark)
781
781 PROVENANCE:
A PAINTED ENAMEL YELLOW-GROUND ‘MEDALLION’ BOWL Private European collection, acquired in Asia prior to 1930.
AND A PUCE-DECORATED ‘DUCK AND LOTUS’ MARRIAGE BOWL Property from a Private Belgian Collection.
THE YELLOW BOWL: QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN
BLUE ENAMEL AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795), THE MARRIAGE 來源：歐洲私人珍藏，於1930年之前購自亞洲
BOWL: 18TH CENTURY
The ‘mandarin duck and lotus’ design of the current marriage bowl is based
清乾隆及清十八世紀 銅胎畫琺瑯黃地萬壽無疆蓮紋碗及 on imperial porcelain examples most commonly seen in the doucai palette.
荷塘鴛鴦紋碗 一組兩件 These bowls were part of the repertoire of court ceramics of the 18th and
19th centuries.
The yellow-ground bowl is decorated to the exterior with four roundels
containing the characters Wanshou wujiang, ‘boundless longevity’, together For four examples of this design, variously dating to the Qianlong (1736-
with the bajixiang, the Eight Buddhist Emblems. The marriage bowl is 1795), Jiaqing (1796-1820) and Daoguang (1821-1850) reigns, see Catalogue
decorated with a continuous scene of three pairs of ducks in a lotus pond of a Special Exhibition of Cheng-hua Period Porcelain, National Palace
below a band of dragons in pursuit of faming pearls. The interior has a Museum, Taipei, 1984.
medallion enclosing a pair of Mandarin ducks below a band of lanca script. The
base has a four-character mark reading Lüwu Jiu’an. A further example from the Qianlong period (1736-1795) is illustrated in
Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong: Qing Porcelain from the Palace Museum, 1989,
7º in. (18.5 cm.) diam. and 6 in. (15.2 cm.) diam. (2) p. 392, pl. 73.
£1,000-2,000 $1,600-3,000
€1,400-2,700
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