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(mark) R976

A BLUE-ENAMELED BOWL

QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE
AND PROBABLY LATE IN THE PERIOD

With rounded sides rising to the slightly everted rim, the
exterior is decorated in blue enamel with four square seals and
one round seal, between lappet and key-fret borders.
4¡ in. (11 cm.) diam.

$1,000-1,500

PROVENANCE

Samuel Putnam Avery Sr. (1822-1904) Collection, New York.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accessioned
in 1879.

The characters on the bowl represent four of the ten famous
scenes from West Lake in Hangzhou. A Qianlong-marked
jardinière, also with an inscription describing the ten famous
scenes, was sold at Christie’s London, 10 November 2015,
lot 164.

清乾隆或以後 藍料「西湖十景印文 」盌 六字篆書款

來源
Samuel Putnam Avery（1822-1904）珍藏， 紐約。
紐約大都會藝術博物館，入藏於1879年。

(mark) R977

AN UNUSUAL BLUE-ENAMELED BALUSTER
VASE

QIANLONG FOUR-CHARACTER MARK IN IRON-RED AND
POSSIBLY LATE IN THE PERIOD

The body is thickly enameled with three fve-clawed dragons
writhing amidst clouds, above rocks and crashing waves below
and beneath a key-fret border that encircles the mouth rim.
9æ in. (24.7 cm.) high

$5,000-7,000

PROVENANCE

Samuel Putnam Avery Sr. (1822-1904) Collection, New York.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accessioned
in 1879.

The present vase is related to a group of Qianlong-marked,
blue-enameled porcelain vessels which include a moonfask
also in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art,
illustrated in S. Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics,
1989 ed., p. 270, no. 279, and a circular box and cover from
the Percival David Foundation, illustrated by S. Peirson and
A. Barnes in A Collector’s Vision: Ceramics for the Qianlong
Emperor, London, 2002, p. 62, no. 52.

清乾隆或以後 藍彩雲龍紋瓶 礬紅四字楷書款

來源
Samuel Putnam Avery（1822-1904）珍藏， 紐約。
紐約大都會藝術博物館，入藏於1879年。

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