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1629
AN IMPERIAL IRON-RED-DECORATED INSCRIBED BOWL
JIAQING DINGSI CYCLICAL DATE, CORRESPONDING TO 1797 AND OF
THE PERIOD
The exterior is inscribed in iron-red with a poem written in standard
script, followed by a cyclical date, mid-Spring of the dingsi year, and
two iron-red circular seals, Jia and Qing. The interior of the bowl is
decorated with a medallion of pine, plum blossoms and a branch of
fnger citron, below two corresponding bands of ruyi heads. The base
is inscribed with a Jiaqing six-character seal mark in iron red.
4º in. (10.7 cm.) diam.
$10,000-15,000
清嘉慶 礬紅御製詩茶鈡 礬紅六字篆書款
1629 (mark)
1630
1630
AN IRON-RED REVERSE-DECORATED ‘BAMBOO’ BOWL
QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL-MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE
AND OF THE PERIOD (1735-1796)
The bowl is elegantly decorated on the exterior with bamboo shoots
and leaves reserved against a ground of rich iron-red.
4¬ in. (11.7 cm.) diam.
$40,000-60,000
PROVENANCE
Dr. Reangthong Limpuangthip (1949-2013), Bethesda, Maryland.
A similar pair of Qianlong-marked ‘bamboo’ bowls was sold at Christie’s
Hong Kong, 1 June 2011, lot 3714. Other examples are illustrated by R. Kerr,
Chinese Ceramics, Porcelains of the Qing Dynasty, London, 1986, pl. 18; and in
The Wonders of the Potter’s Palette, Qing Ceramics from the Collection of the
Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1984, no. 77.
清乾隆 礬紅留白竹紋盌 六字篆書款
1630 (mark)
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