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and each bears the respective emperor’s seal mark in underglaze blue on the base. The pair to this bowl, also from the collection
of Dr. and Mme. Ho-Ching Yang, was sold in these rooms, 16th September 2009, lot 218.

Compare also a Qianlong period bowl of this type, but with a white interior, in the collection of the Tsui Museum of Art, illustrated
in The Tsui Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1991, pl. 127. A closely related bowl from the Meiyintang Collection sold in our Hong Kong
rooms, 9th October 2012, lot 33; and a third sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 30th May 2006, lot 1349. For examples with a
Yongzheng seal mark, see a bowl in the collection of Anthony Gustav de Rothschild illustrated in Regina Krahl, The Anthony de
Rothschild Collection of Chinese Ceramics, vol. 2, London, 1996, cat. no. 144; one from the collection of the British Rail Pension
Fund that sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 16th May 1989, lot 57; and another that sold at Christie’s New York, 18th September 2003,
lot 350.

Ho-Ching Yang (1900-1963) studied at Tongji Medical College in Shanghai and went on to earn a second medical degree from
Rostock University in Germany, where he graduated with the highest honors with a specialization in otolaryngology. Subsequently,
he and his wife, Madame Von Sung Yang (1903-2005), moved to Suzhou, where Dr. Yang began his practice, and the couple
engaged in the cultural life of the city and embarked a lifelong pursuit of collecting Chinese porcelain. In 1937, Dr. and Mme. Yang
moved to London with their six children, and two years later the family relocated to New York. There, Dr. Yang became a prominent
stock broker, and served as Vice President and a member of the Board of Directors at a prominent Wall Street firm. In New York,
Dr. and Mme. Yang's passion for the arts and culture flourished. They avidly collected Chinese porcelain and dedicated themselves
to supporting the Chinese community, most notably through their involvement in the China Institute of America, where Dr. Yang
served as President of the Board of Trustees, and Mme. Yang served as a Trustee.

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