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A ‘FAUX BOIS’ JARDINIÈRE A PAIR OF FAMILLE VERTE BOWLS
18TH-19TH CENTURY
KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)
The jardini0re is sturdily potted with steep, slightly fared sides and is
decorated in imitation of wood staves bound by two bands of yellow Each bowl is decorated with a peony and fowering branch overlaid
rope.
14¡ in. (36.7 cm.) diameter with persimmon-shaped panel enclosing a fgure on a riverbank,

$20,000-30,000 watching birds in fight above the river. The opposite side is

PROVENANCE: decorated with a scroll-shaped panel enclosing a lengthy inscription.

The James E. Sowell Collection, Dallas, Texas. The interior of the everted mouth rim is decorated with a scroll-

A pair of similar ‘faux bois’ jardinières, from the collection of the Duke of border of four panels enclosing composite fower sprigs, each
Norfolk, was sold at Sotheby’s Monaco, 4 March 1984, lot 170. Compare
the current example to a Yongzheng-marked fower pot imitating wood separated by dense foral scroll. The base is decorated with a seal mark
grain and illustrated in Liu Liang-yu, Ch’ing Offcial and Popular Wares, A
Survey of Chinese Ceramics, vol. 5, Taipei, 1991, p.129. See, also, a related in underglaze blue within a double-line border.
Qianlong ‘faux bois’ jardinière illustrated in Catalogue of World Ceramics,
Tokyo, 1956, fg.43. 8 in. (20.1 cm.) diameter (2)

清十八/十九世紀 仿木紋釉花盆 $7,000-9,000

PROVENANCE:

The James E. Sowell Collection, Dallas, Texas.

The bowls are inscribed with excerpts from the poem “On the Lake,” by
Tang dynasty poet Gu Kuang (c. AD 725-814).

清康熙 五彩開光人物詩文盌一對

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