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A blue and white deep bowl
Early Kangxi
Finely potted with wide rim, painted with a band of
stylised foliage, the central medallion depicting a
lady standing before an openwork rock in a fenced
garden deep in reverie, her hand exposing her wrist
while gazing up at the poem, the cavetto painted
with sprays of lotus, chrysanthemum and peony.
34.5cm (13 5/8in) diam.

£4,000 - 7,000
HK$50,000 - 88,000
CNY40,000 - 69,000

清康熙早期 青花庭園仕女圖盆
青花「玉堂佳器」楷書款

Provenance 來源: Adgey Edgar Collection
Sydney L.Moss Ltd., London (label)
S.Marchant and Son Ltd., London (label)
Roy Davids Collection, no.86, acquired on 28
November 2006

The mark within double circle is 玉堂佳器 yu tang jia
qi which translates as ‘Fine vessel for the Jade Hall’.
Inside the bowl is incribed this couplet:

想思恨轉深，’Reminiscing, her regrets deepen’;
慢把瑤琴弄。’languidly she plucks the jasper zither’

The thoughtful dreamy pose of the lady is related
to a dish, also dated early Kangxi, illustrated by
M.Butler, M.Medley and S.Little, Seventeenth
Century Chinese Porcelain from the Butler Family
Collection, Hong Kong, 1990, no.113, which depicts
a lady seated at a table, also by a fence.

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A blue and white saucer dish
Kangxi six-character mark and of the period
Thinly potted, the rounded sides rising to an everted
rim, the central medallion painted with three lotus
flower heads amongst scrolling foliage and leaves,
a floral border at the rim, the reverse painted with a
similar design.
15cm (5 7/8in) diam.

£2,000 - 3,000
HK$25,000 - 38,000
CNY20,000 - 30,000

清康熙 青花纏枝蓮紋盤
青花「大清康熙年製」楷書款

Provenance 來源: Christie’s London, 14 June 1990,
lot 176
114 R. & G.McPherson Ltd., London (label)
Roy Davids Collection, no.37, acquired on 16 June
2009

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