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713 A PAIR OF FAMILLE-ROSE ‘BOYS’
210 SOTHEBY’S BOWLS AND COVERS
QING DYNASTY, DAOGUANG PERIOD

each nely painted around the exterior with a
continuous scene of ve boys at play in a garden,
with one setting o recrackers whilst others play
instruments and another ies a kite, the base and top
of the cover inscribed in iron-red enamel with the four-
character mark Xiezhu zhuren zao (made by the Master
of the Bamboo Flute) within a square (4)
Diameter 4⅜ in., 11.2 cm

Compare a very similar bowl and cover inscribed with
a Daoguang seal mark in iron-red, formerly in the
Yangzhitang Collection, sold at Christie’s Singapore,
30th March 1997, lot 255. A Xiezhu zhuren zao mark
also appears on a larger ogee-form bowl, also painted
with boys at play, attributed to the Daoguang period,
sold in our London rooms, 9th November 2011, lot 478.

$ 6,000-8,000

713

PROPERTY FROM A NORTH CAROLINA ESTATE

A PAIR OF FAMILLE-ROSE DISHES
QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY

each with shallow rounded sides, the exterior
decorated with a colorful leafy lotus scroll interspersed
with iron-red roundels enclosing the characters wan
shou wu jiang, the interior painted with ve iron-red
bats (wufu) encircling a shou character, the base with
an apocryphal Jiaqing seal mark in iron-red (2)
Diameter 6½ in., 16.5 cm

PROVENANCE
Sotheby’s New York, 26th February 1983, lot 521.

EXHIBITED
Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art: Selections from
the Vanderbilt Museum and Other Private Collections,
Centerport, New York, 1983, cat. no. 47.

$ 10,000-15,000

1983 2 26 521

Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art Selections

from the Vanderbilt Museum and Other Private

Collections Centerport 1983

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