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Two blue and white export punch bowls A blue and white triple-gourd vase and a celadon
Qianlong ‘lotus’ bottle vase
Both with everted rims, the first decorated to the centre with a typical Kangxi and 18th century
landscape scene, beneath a diaper border and a sugar cane band to The triple-gourd vase painted with panels and roundels enclosing
the interior of the rim, the exterior with floral spray; the second painted floral sprays, with upright leaf lappets below the everted mouth rim;
to the centre and well with a bold scene of dwellings in a mountain the bottle vase carved to the exterior with a dense lotus flower head
riverscape, a decorative band to the rim and floral sprays to the meander, bordered with a foliate lappet band at the foot and neck, with
exterior; together with two small ‘prunus’ ginger jars. The first bowl: a keyfret border at the shoulder.
35cm (13 3/4in) diam. (4). The triple-gourd vase: 28.5cm (11 1/4in) high (2).

£500 - 800 HK$6,000 - 9,600 £600 - 800 HK$7,200 - 9,600
CNY4,800 - 7,700 CNY5,800 - 7,700

Provenance 216
Acquired prior to the 1930s, and thence by descent. A rare blue and white deep bowl
Shende tang chuangu zhi mark, Kangxi
214 Boldly painted with peony and camellia blossoms, rockwork and two
Four large blue and white export plates and five small birds, the interior similarly decorated with dragon flies amongst
smaller rockwork, the base with an underglaze blue six-character mark ‘Made
Qianlong for the Hall of Prudent Virtue’.
The larger dishes variously painted with gardens of plantain, willow, 20cm (7 7/8in) diam.
bamboo and flowering plants issuing from rockwork; the smaller plates
with further floral designs. £500 - 800 HK$6,000 - 9,600
The largest 39cm (15.3/8in) diam. (9). CNY4,800 - 7,700

£500 - 800 HK$6,000 - 9,600 For a famille verte dish, c.1670-1675, with this unusual hall mark 愼德
CNY4,800 - 7,700 堂傳古製, and a further discussion on the imperial connotations of the
mark, see M. Wilson, Rare Marks on Chinese Ceramics, SOAS & V&A
Provenance Museum 1998, p. 74, no.27.
Acquired prior to the 1930s, and thence by descent. Compare a related bowl, with different decoration, sold by Christie’s
New York, 29 March 2006, lot 100.

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