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A RARE CHINESE FAMILLE VERTE ‘SCHOLARS’ BOWL
KANGXI/YONGZHENG
The deep U-shaped body supported on a short tapering foot and rising to
a flared everted rim, finely painted with two seated scholars relaxing and
drinking tea by a cluster of rocks and shrubs, with an attendant standing
to the side ready to assist, the reverse inscribed with a poem, with a six
character Hongzhi mark to the base, 11.5cm.
£2,000-4,000
Provenance: given to the current owner in Hong Kong in 1980 by Brian McElney,
founder of the Museum of East Asian Art, Bath.
Cf. W Qian, Tianwuguan Cang Ci, vol.1, pp.144-145
for a related Kangxi bowl also with scholars and a
Hongzhi mark.
reverse
清康熙/雍正 粉彩高士詩文碗
《大明弘治年製》青花楷書款
來源：1980年代在香港由巴斯東亞藝術博物館
創始人Brian McElney贈予現藏家。

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