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2264 AN UNUSUAL PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE
RETICULATED BOWLS AND COVERS
JIAQING SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARKS IN IRON
RED AND OF THE PERIOD (1796-1820)

The bowls and covers are similarly decorated
with a reticulated band of bats suspending
chimes amidst lotus scrolls between ruyi
borders on a yellow ground. The interiors,
bases and fnials are covered in turquoise
enamel.
Each bowl: 4æ in. (12 cm.) diam., box (2)

$6,000-8,000

PROVENANCE:

Edith Root Grant (1878-1962) Collection,
Clinton, New York.

Edith Root Grant was the wife of Ulysses S.
Grant III (1881-1968), a Major General of the US
Army who served in both world wars and was
the grandson of US president Ulysses S. Grant.
Mrs. Grant’s parents were also prominent in the
government; her father Elihu Root was Theodore
Roosevelt’s Secretary of State. The Roots owned
a country house in Clinton, New York, which
is now part of Hamilton College. The present
bowls were part of the collection in the Clinton
house, and could have been acquired by Edith’s
parents, or by the Grants themselves.

清嘉慶
黃地粉彩鏤雕「福慶有餘」蓋碗一對
礬紅六字篆書款

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