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A RARE LARGE IRON-RED AND UNDERGLAZE
BLUE-DECORATED BOWL
QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE
AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
The deep bowl is painted on the exterior in underglaze-blue with
a continuous frieze of sea beasts including winged horses, dragons suspending two interlocked fruiting peach scrolls below a ruyi-
and chimeras frolicking on a fine iron-red wave ground, set
between a keyfret border at the rim and around the straight foot.
The base of the interior is decorated with a winged dragon on a
wave-ground enclosed within a central medallion.
8 º in. (21 cm.) diam.
HK$240,000-350,000 US$32,000-45,000
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A VERY RARE COPPER-RED DECORATED ‘BATS
AND PEACHES’ VASE
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)
The vase is potted with an ovoid body rising from a tapering foot
to a flaring neck. The body is painted on each side with a bat
head border at shoulder and a band of lappets around the lower
body. The neck is similarly decorated and flanked by a pair of bat-
form handles suspending wan emblems.
11 º in. (18.6 cm.) high
HK$400,000-600,000 US$52,000-78,000
PROVENANCE
A French private collection, acquired in the 1970s
The present vase is extremely rare for its decoration and its bat-form
handles and only one other example of this design appears to have
been published, in the collection of the National Palace Museum, and
illustrated in Catalog of the Special Exhibition of K’ang-His, Yung-
Cheng and Ch’ien-Lung Porcelain Ware from the Ch’ing Dynasty in the
National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1986, no. 73 (fig. 1).
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