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13. Chinese porcelain famille verte rectangular writing box and cover, painted on the cover with a lady seated amongst rockwork
holding a teacup with a gilt teapot and crackled vase on a rockwork table beside a fish bowl with iron-red fish and beneath clouds,
彩 仕 女 五 文 具 盒 圖 the box base with reticulated sides and encircled with an iron-red band, the interior divided into three compartments, the flat
base unglazed.
6 ¼ inches, 15.9 cm long; 2 ¾ inches, 7 cm deep; 1 ¬ inches, 4.2 cm high.
Kangxi, circa 1700.

• Formerly in the Reginald Cory Collection.
Reginald Radcliffe Cory (1871-1934) was educated at Trinity College Cambridge. He was a keen horticulturist and the gardens
he developed at Dyffryn House in Wales are considered to be amongst the best 100 in Britain. He left the residue of his estate
康 清 熙 to the Cambridge University Botanic Gardens, its largest ever benefaction. After his death a selection of his ceramics were given
to both The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge and the British Museum. Other pieces of his were sold at auction.
In The Book of Famille Rose, G. C. Williamson notes, “There are not many collectors of oriental porcelain in this country who
are specially attracted by what is known as the Chinese taste”.
• Included by R. L. Hobson in The Later Ceramic Wares of China, pl. XXXV.
• Included by The British Antique Dealers Association in their exhibition of Art Treasures, Christie’s, London, 1932.
• Formerly in the Alfred Clark Collection.
• Included by Edgar E. Bluett in Apollo Magazine article Chinese Pottery and Porcelain in the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred
Clark, 1933-1934.
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• Included by Sir Harry M. Garner in the exhibition of The Arts of the Ch’ing Dynasty, 1964 and illustrated by The Oriental
Ceramic Society in Transactions of The Oriental Ceramic Society 1963-64, no. 132, p. 58, pl. 51.
• Sold by Sotheby’s, London, in their auction of The Property of Mrs. Alfred Clark, 25th March 1975, lot no. 119.
• Sold by Sydney L. Moss Ltd., London.
• Sold by Solveig and Anita Grey Ltd., London.
• Formerly in the James E. Sowell Collection, inventory no. PO33.
• Included by William Motley in the Cohen and Cohen exhibition catalogue, Tiptoe through the Tulipiéres, 2008, no. 10, p. 18.
• Formerly in the Roy Davids Collection, collection no. 101, purchased from Cohen and Cohen, 17th June 2009.

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