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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT ASIAN PRIVATE COLLECTION
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AN EXTREMELY RARE COPPER RED DISH
XUANDE MARK AND PERIOD
the rounded sides rising from a short tapered undercut foot to
a white, slightly everted rim, applied evenly with a sacri cial-
red glaze su used with tiny dark ecks, the exterior convex
base with a bluish-white glaze and inscribed in underglaze blue
with a six-character mark within a double circle
17.5 cm, 7 in.
PROVENANCE
Mrs Enid and Francis Brodie Lodge.
Sotheby’s London, 14th March 1972, lot 147 (£3,400).
EXHIBITED
Monochrome Porcelain of the Ming and Manchu Dynasties,
Oriental Ceramic Society, London, 1948, cat. no. 129.
£ 300,000-400,000
HK$ 2,900,000-3,860,000 US$ 373,000-497,000
Enid Francis Brodie Lodge
1972 3 14 147 3 400
Monochrome Porcelain of the Ming and Manchu
Dynasties 1948 129
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