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FIG. i3H. Watercolor drawing
of a similarly mounted lidded
bowl. New York, The Metro-
politan Museum of Art, Gift
of Raphael Esmerian, 1961
[61.680.i (8)].
NOTES crowned C; Sotheby's, London, June 25, 1982, lot 59;
i. Both four- and six-character reign marks of the Chenghua Christie's, Monaco, December 5, 1992, no. 93; Christie's,
London, December 10, 1992, lot 213. The last two pairs
emperor (r. 1465-87) are found on ceramics of a later bore mounts struck with the crowned C; Sotheby's, Lon-
date. In these cases, however, no attempt has been made don, December 16, 1998, lot 156 (without crowned C's).
by the maker to copy the porcelain of the fifteenth cen-
5. Christie's, London, June 30, 1905, lot. 105.
tury and no deception was intended. 6. Livre-journal de Lazare Duvaux 1873, p. 302, no. 2650,
2,. See commentary for catalogue no. 5.
and p. 314, no. 2769.
3. De Bellaigue 1974, pp. 75^-53, no. 196. 7. Ace. no. 61.680.1(8); see M. Myers, French architectural
4. Christie's, London, November 2,6, 1970, lot 12, sold by
and ornament drawings of the eighteenth century (New
order of the trustees of the late A. C. J. Wall, gilt-bronze
mounts struck with the crowned C; Drouot Rive Droite, York, 1991), pp. 195-200.
Paris, December 10, 1980, no. 74, mounts with the
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