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A VERY RARE FAMILLE VERTE ‘LOTUS’ MONTH CUP descriptions for it which were printed by A.W.Bahr, Old Chinese
Kangxi six-character mark and of the period Porcelain and Works of Art in China, 1911. Charles Liddell had formed
The finely potted vessel rising to a gently flaring rim, decorated to his collection, except for three pieces, while trading in China for nearly
represent the sixth month with a pair of Mandarin ducks swimming forty years. He purchased a number of them from two significant
in a lotus pond, with a kingfisher in flight above, the reverse with a sources: the collection of Prince Chun, the last Regent of the Qing
poetic inscription: Gen shi ni zhong yu. Xin cheng lu xia zhu, ‘The dynasty; and from the collection of the private secretary and adviser to
roots are like jade gleaming in the mud. The hearts contain pearls Li Hongzhang. In May-June 1929 Bluett offered part of the collection
when dew has descended’. for sale, publishing a catalogue of The Liddell Collection of Old Chinese
4.9cm (1 8/9in) high. Porcelain with 229 entries and eight illustrative plates, one of them
unusually in colour.
£70,000 - 120,000
CNY630,000 - 1,100,000 來源：
Charles Oswald Liddell上尉（1854-1941）舊藏
倫敦古董商Bluett & Sons Ltd.
清康熙 五彩「荷花」花神盃 倫敦E. A. Parry（1879-1946）舊藏，於1929年6月12日購自上者，
青花「大清康熙年製」楷書款 並由後人保存迄今

Provenance: 展覽著錄：
Captain Charles Oswald Liddell (1854-1941) Bluett & Sons Ltd.，《Liddell收藏中國瓷器（The Liddell Collection of
Bluett & Sons Ltd., London Old Chinese Porcelain）》，倫敦，1929年6月，頁11，編號100或101
E. A. Parry (1879-1946), London, acquired from the above on
12 June 1929, and thence by descent 利德爾上尉（Captain Charles Oswald Liddell），1854年生於愛
丁堡。1877年移居中國，並為其家族企業一直在華工作至1913
Published and Exhibited: 年。1880年，他與Elizabeth Birt在上海聖公會大教堂舉行婚禮，隨後
Bluett & Sons Ltd., The Liddell Collection of Old Chinese Porcelain, 接手了Birt家族在上海的平和碼頭，並將業務擴展到杭州、天津和哈爾
London, June 1929, p.11, no.100 or 101. 濱等地。平和洋行的英文商號在其弟John加入後改為Liddell Bros。利
德爾曾服役於上海英租界輕騎隊，並於1915年任蒙默思郡團一營軍需
Captain Charles Oswald Liddell (1854-1941) was born in 1851 in 長官和榮譽上尉。1908年，利德爾與巴爾（A.W.Bahr，時任皇家亞洲
Edinburgh. Having moved to China for family business, he worked 學會華北分會秘書）合作於上海舉辦展覽，巴爾將展覽描述集結成
there from 1877-1913. He married Elizabeth Birt in 1880 in the 《中國古瓷美術譜（Old Chinese Porcelain and Works of Art in
Anglican Cathedral in Shanghai, and thereby inherited Birt’s Wharf China）》並於1911年出版。利德爾的藏品，除其中三件以外，全數
there, expanding the business to Hangzhou, Tianjin and Harbin. He 在其在華經商的近四十年間入藏；其中一大部分來自兩個重要渠道：
was joined by his brother John when the firm became known as Liddell 清朝末代攝政王醇親王載灃的藏品，以及李鴻章的私人秘書兼顧問的
Bros. In 1915 Liddell was Quartermaster and Hon. Captain in the 1st 收藏。1929年5月至6月期間，倫敦古董商Bluett’s出售了利德爾的部分
Battalion, The Monmouthshire Regiment, having served previously (and 藏品，並出版了《利德爾收藏中國瓷器（The Liddell Collection of Old
more adventurously) in the ‘Shanghai Light Horse’. Liddell collaborated Chinese Porcelain）》圖錄，收錄了共計229件藏品並附8張插圖，
with A.W.Bahr in an exhibition in Shanghai in 1908 (he was Chairman 其中甚至包含一幅頗不尋常的彩色插圖。
of the North China branch of the Royal Asiatic Society), and in writing

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