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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE BELGIAN COLLECTION PROVENANCE
10 From a private Belgian Collection, acquired from a Christian
A RARE DOUCAI ‘MYTHICAL HORSE’ DISH missionary in Belgium circa 1975, thence by descent within the
YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE family.
BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD
(1723-1735) See a similar dish in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated
in Porcelains in Polychrome and Contrasting Colours, The
The dish is painted with a mythical horse supporting a ribboned Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum,
book on a saddle cloth, galloping over waves beside rocks. The Hong Kong, 1999, no. 218. Another from the Edward T. Chow
exterior is decorated with further waves and rocks. Collection was sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 19 May 1981, lot
7√ in. (20 cm.) diam. 560. One previously in the W. W. Winkworth Collection was
sold at Sotheby’s London, 12 December 1972, lot 122, then at
£15,000-25,000 $20,000-32,000 Christie’s Hong Kong, 30 May 2012, lot 4106.
€18,000-29,000 清雍正 鬥彩河圖洛書盤 雙圈三行六字楷書款
來源:比利時私人珍藏, 由比利時傳教士購於1975年,後由
其家族珍藏至今
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