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A CHINESE UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND RED CELADON-GROUND A CHINESE FAMILLE ROSE ‘BUTTERFLY’ TEA BOWL
‘BATS AND CLOUDS’ DISH FOUR CHARACTER XIANFENG MARK AND OF THE PERIOD
SIX CHARACTER QIANLONG MARK AND OF THE PERIOD 1736-95 1851-61
With a barbed rim, painted all over with bats amidst swirling wisps of blue Painted in enamels and gilt with butterflies amidst small blossoms and shrubs,
clouds, the flying animals picked out in red, all reserved on a pale grey-green inscribed to the well with three characters reading Su Shi ju, the cavetto
ground, the dish supported on a tapering foot, with the reign mark in inscribed san shi shi lai fen, 6.6cm.
underglaze blue to the base, 39.4cm. £800-1,200
£2,000-3,000
Su Shi (1037-1101) was a Chinese calligrapher, poet
and politician during the Song dynasty and he is generally
regarded as one of the most accomplished and important
figures in classical Chinese literature.
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