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三 35. Famille verte ‘hundred bird’ bowl, wan, thinly potted with flared rim, painted on the exterior in a continuous scene with
十 phoenix birds, peacock and peahen, egret, kingfisher and numerous other birds in flight, one perched on a wuti trunk
五 with rockwork and grasses, the interior with a white egret standing amongst rockwork beneath clouds and the sun,
beneath a wide band at the rim with four river-landscape reserves on a diaper ground.
五 20cm diameter.
彩 The base with a lozenge and ribbon mark within a double ring in underglaze blue, Kangxi, 1662-1722.
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鳥 • Formerly in a European private collection.
朝 • Previously sold by Marchant, circa 1965.
陽 • Another bowl with birds in The Victoria and Albert Museum is illustrated by W. B. Honey in Guide to the Later
圖 Chinese Porcelain, Periods of K’ang Hsi, Yung Cheng and Ch’ien Lung, pl. 83, c.
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