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345 A FINE COPPER-RED- ⌲Ꮴ⛆ ㈲䛶⯹
GLAZED BOWL Ȩ๔⌲Ꮴ⛆Ꭱ㸪ȩ

KANGXI MARK AND PERIOD ҳ⎽
Brodie 1880 1967 ⿻ Enid Lodge 佐询⻍㸞
the deep rounded sides rising from a tapered
兜侚龾薊呔貽
foot to a gently everted rim, covered overall
♳䬝倴⧍侚豤㺢嫲1982䎃6剢15傈管贫329
in a lustrous garnet-colored glaze su" used
Marchant⧍侚2000䎃
with minute bubbles, the warm red tones
transmuting to shades of dark mushroom
around the well and foot, the rim and base ܧ❵
white, the base with a six-character mark in Je" rey P StamenCynthia Volk ⿻⧋❠俛
underglaze-blue within a double circle, coll. շ俒ꅷ⼾搭 : 悦誩㛔询䐁擳渿⚆櫙ո䋒ス
no. 292. 饟2017䎃㕬晝16
Diameter 6⅛ in., 15.5 cm
PROVENANCE
Collection of Brodie (1880-1967) and Enid
Lodge, Northamptonshire, England.
O" ered at Sotheby’s London, 15th June 1982,
lot 329.
Marchant, London, 2000.
LITERATURE
Je" rey P. Stamen and Cynthia Volk with Yibin
Ni, A Culture Revealed: Kangxi-era Chinese
Porcelain from the Jie Rui Tang Collection,
Bruges, 2017, pl. 16.
$ 50,000-70,000

Copper-red-glazed bowls of the Kangxi period from the Zhuyuetang Collection, Hong Kong, Brodie and his brother, Alec, built upon their
are rare compared to examples from later is illustrated in Peter Y. K. Lam, ‘Lang Tingji father’s work by founding Lodge Brothers, a
Qing reigns. A slightly smaller Kangxi mark and (1663-1715) and the Porcelain of the Late hugely successful company that produced
period bowl of this type from the Qing Court Kangxi Period’, Transactions of the Oriental electric engine coils and spark plugs. The
Collection in the Palace Museum, Beijing, is Ceramic Society, vol. 68 (2003-2004), 1935-36 Royal Academy Exhibition heightened
illustrated in Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong: Qing ! gs 14a, 14b. A further example from the his and his wife Enid’s interest in Chinese art
Porcelain from the Palace Museum Collection, Goldschmidt Collection sold in our Hong Kong and soon thereafter they joined the Oriental
Hong Kong, 1989, pl. 128. A pair of similar rooms, 13th November 1990, lot 53. Ceramic Society of London. They amassed one
bowls from the Avery Brundage Collection are of the ! nest collections of Chinese art, with
The present example comes from the
now in the San Francisco Asian Art Museum particular attention to Longquan celadons,
collection of Brodie and Enid Lodge. Brodie
(acc. nos B60P1646 and B60P1643). A bowl Shang bronzes, Tang and Song ceramics, and
was the son of Sir Oliver Lodge, inventor of the
of the same size as the present example Ming and Qing porcelains.
electric spark ignition for combustion engines.

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