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PROPERTY OF A LADY 清乾隆 珊瑚紅白地秀竹紋盌
A FINE CORAL-GROUND REVERSE-DECORATED 《大清乾隆年製》款
‘BAMBOO’ BOWL
SEAL MARK AND PERIOD OF QIANLONG 來源：
S. Marchant & Son，倫敦
well potted with deep rounded sides supported on a straight
foot, finely painted reverse against a rich coral-red ground
with leafy bamboo branches, the interior left plain, inscribed
to the base with a six-character seal mark in underglaze blue
11.6 cm, 4⅝ in.

PROVENANCE
S. Marchant & Son, London.

HK$ 600,000-800,000
US$ 76,500-102,000

A closely related example, sold in these rooms, 19th May
1982, lot 321, and now in the Hong Kong Museum of Art,
Hong Kong, was included in the Museum’s exhibition The
Wonders of the Potter’s Palette, Hong Kong, 1984, cat. no.
77; another from the Paul and Helen Bernat collection was
sold in these rooms, 15th November 1988, lot 30; and a pair
was sold in our London rooms, 16th May 2012, lot 289.
A Jiaqing bowl of this type was included in the Oriental
Ceramic Society exhibition Iron in the Fire, Ashmolean
Museum, Oxford, 1988, cat. no. 99, where it is noted that ‘the
iron-red enamel is extremely sensitive to thickness and such
an even effect is a considerable technical achievement’.

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