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A FAMILLE ROSE BOWL
Guangxu six-character mark, early 20th century
The bowl well potted, with deep rounded sides
rising from a slightly tapered foot, brightly enamelled
to the exterior with court women and scholars
engaging in leisurely pursuits, such as painting and
conversing, amid flower vases, garden containers
and a poetic inscription, box.
21cm (8 2/8in) diam. (2).

£12,000 - 18,000
CNY110,000 - 160,000
二十世紀初 粉彩高士仕女紋盌
礬紅「大清光緒年製」楷書款

Provenance: Vanderven & Vanderven Oriental Art,
s’Hertogenbosch

來源： 荷蘭斯海爾托亨博斯古董商Vanderven &
Vanderven Oriental Art

The bowl has the following poetic inscription from
the Tang dynasty poem ‘A Song of Fair Ladies’ (Li
ren xing 丽人行) by Du Fu 杜甫 (712-770):

態濃意遠淑且真
繡羅衣裳照暮春
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Which may be translated as:
‘with a dignified and refined air without artifice;
their embroidered clothes glow in the dusk of spring’

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