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7282 Property from Another Owner

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A copper red glazed dish
158 | BONHAMS Qianlong six-character mark and of
the period
Molded with a shallow curving well and
raised on the tapered foot, the interior
and exterior covered with a deep scarlet
wash that thins along the rim, exposing the
white clay fabric beneath a colorless glaze
covering all surfaces except the foot pad but
displaying a faint celadon hue across the
recessed base where the mark is written in
underglaze blue seal script.
6 1/2in (16.5cm) diameter
$2,000 - 3,000

Property from a private San
Francisco Bay Area Collector

7283
A fine copper red-glazed
stem bowl
Qianlong six-character mark and of
the period
Molded with a flared rim to the wide,
curving well and raised on a tall conical foot,
the dark copper red wash on the interior
and exterior walls stopping along both sides
of the rim where the white fabric is visible
beneath the colorless glaze covering all
surfaces except the foot pad, the glaze of
more pronounced greenish-white hue on
the interior foot where the mark is written in
a single line of seal script.
5 7/8in (15cm) diameter
4 5/8in (11.7cm) high
$20,000 - 30,000

The stem cup with copper red glaze made
its first appearance during the Yuan Period.
For examples from the Yuan and early
Ming preserved in the Palace Museum, see
Gugong Bowuyuan Cang Wenwu Zhenpin
Quanji 37: Yanse You (The Complete
Collection of Treasures of the Palace
Museum, vol. 37: Monochrome Porcelain),
1999, no. 2 (Yuan), p. 3 and no. 4 (Yongle),
p. 5. Copies for imperial use during the
Qing period are known from the Yongzheng
and Qianlong periods, but seldom appear
at auction. A cup of the similar size, also
Qianlong mark and of the period, sold in
Christie’s, South Kensington sale 8833, 17
May 2013, lot 1333 (4 1/2in, 11.5cm high).
See also the Qianlong copper-red stem
cup of similar diameter to this lot (15.2cm)
offered in the Marchant, London, Exhibition
of Chinese Ceramics Tang to Qing, 6-30
May 2014, no. 58; from the collection of
Mr. Y.C. Chen.