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Rolf Cunliffe began collecting Chinese art when he was a Royal
Air Force pilot stationed in London towards the end of World
War II. Over the next 20 years, he acquired over one thousand
Chinese ceramics, jades and bronzes. At his flat near Grosvenor
Square, London, he had to build special storage units for his
collection in the bathroom. As his son, the 3rd Baron Cunliffe
remembers, ‘visiting collectors like the King of Sweden would
spend happy hours sitting on the edge of the bath discussing
the finer points of a jade rhyton or a Junyao bowl.’

Rolf Cunliffe勳爵為英格蘭東南部薩里郡Baron Cunliffe 第二
代，二戰前曾擔任英國皇家空軍飛行員。二戰後的二十年中，
開始收藏中國陶瓷器，古代青銅器、玉器、鼻煙壺，是最具影
響力的中國藝術品收藏家之一。他酷愛中國藝術，甚至把藏品
放在位於倫敦格羅夫納廣場家裡浴室的保險櫃中。其子第三代
勳爵曾回憶：「記得當瑞士國王來拜訪時，他和我父親兩人在
浴室裡為討論一件玉杯或鈞窯洗可以坐上整整幾個小時。」

Rolf, Lord Cunliffe (1899 - 1963)

10 *
A RARE DINGYAO MOULDED ‘FLORAL’ BOWL For a very similar bowl Dingyao bowl, early 13th century, see Teiyo
Jin Dynasty hakuji, Tokyo, 1983, no.133. For another similarly moulded bowl
The thinly potted bowl with a plain exterior and typical olive teardrop trails, from the collection of the Museum of East Asian Art, Bath, but with
the interior crisply moulded in six panels each with an upright cluster of a central medallion of two fish, see B.McElney, Inaugural Exhibition,
floral sprays including daisy, peony and camellia, a strip of corroded metal vol.1 Chinese Ceramics, Bath, 1993, no.88. Another related white
adhering at one point to the unglazed biscuit rim, fitted box. glazed bowl with floral patterns in six sections around the interior,
19.3cm (7 5/8in) diam. (2). Song dynasty, is illustrated in Selected Chinese Antiquities from the
Collection of Gustaf Adolf Crown Prince of Sweden, Stockholm, 1948,
£50,000 - 80,000 pp.118-119, pl.75.
CNY450,000 - 710,000
金 定窯白釉印花卉紋盌

Provenance: Cheng Te-k’un, prior to October 1950
Bluett & Sons Ltd., London, 1950
Rolf, Lord Cunliffe (1899-1963), Honorary Keeper of the Far Eastern
Collections at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Bonhams London, 11 November 2002, lot 16
Acquired from R & V Tregaskis, Sydney, on 3 February 2010, no.2896
The Reid Collection

來源：
1950年10月前為Cheng Te-k’un先生收藏
倫敦古董商Bluett & Sons Ltd.
Cunliffe收藏，藏品編號TT27
2002年11月11日於倫敦邦瀚斯拍賣，拍品16號
於2010年2月3日購自悉尼古董商R & V Tregaskis，編號2896
Reid 收藏

For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot
16 | BONHAMS please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue.