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PROPERTY OF A NEW ENGLAND COLLECTOR                                 ANOTHER PROPERTY
2278
A FAMILLE ROSE BOWL                                                 2279
GUANGXU SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN IRON-RED AND OF THE PERIOD (1875-     A PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE ‘BAMBOO SHOOT AND PLUMS’ DISHES
1908)                                                               GUANGXU SIX-CHARACTER MARKS IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A
                                                                    DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1875-1908)
The sides are decorated in ‘boneless’ style in bright enamels with
a large peony and a phoenix fying amidst a landscape of rocks,      Each dish is decorated in the interior with a leafy branch bearing red
bamboo, and lingzhi.
6¡ in. (16.2 cm.) diam.                                             plums, and a bamboo shoot.

$4,000-6,000                                                        7Ω in. (19 cm.) diam.                                                   (2)

PROVENANCE:                                                         $6,000-8,000

Richard K. Sun Collection, Pasadena, California, acquired in 1978.  Bamboo shoots (sun) is a pun for grandson and together with red plums,
                                                                    they express the wish to have many male descendants.
清光緒 粉彩富貴吉祥紋盌 礬紅六字楷書款
                                                                    清光緒 粉彩「結子生孫」圖盤一對 雙圈六字楷書款

2278 (mark)                                                                                     2279 (mark)

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