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A RARE WHITE-GLAZED BISCUIT 'LINGLONG' BOWL 明末十七世紀 白釉鏤刻人物圖碗
MING DYNASTY, 17TH CENTURY
來源:
The skillfully worked bowl is decorated to the exterior with fve medallions 英國Vrijman珍藏
enclosing fgures in high relief, separated by stylised wan characters in
openwork, all between four fower heads with tendrils below the mouth rim 荷蘭Vanderven & Vanderven Oriental Art, 2014年4月24日
and fve ruyi-heads to the foot rim. The base has an apocryphal Chenghua 瑞士艾爾伯．梵達倫及莉奧妮．梵達倫伉儷珍藏
mark in underglaze blue.
3Ω in. (8.9 cm.) diam.
£8,000-12,000 US$10,000-15,000
€9,100-14,000
PROVENANCE:
Vrijman Collection, United Kingdom.
With Vanderven Oriental Art, the Netherlands, 24 April 2014.
Bowls of this type were known as 'devils' work', guigong in Chinese, which
may be a reference to the ‘devilish’ skills required. Due to the openwork
technique, they were also called linglong which can be translated as
'delicate-openwork'. A similarly-decorated bowl with applied fgures in
high relief can be found in the collection of the Rijksmuseum, illustrated by
Christiaan J.A. Jörg in Chinese Ceramics in the Collection of the Rijksmuseum,
Amsterdam. The Ming and Qing Dynasties, 1997, p. 47, fg. 28.

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