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807 A PAIR OF IRON RED AND UNDERGLAZE
BLUE ‘WUFU’ DISHES
PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF BROOKS AND DAOGUANG SEAL MARKS AND PERIOD
DOROTHY COFIELD
each with shallow rounded sides, the interior with ve iron-
A COPPER RED DISH red bats forming a ring in the center within an underglaze
QIANLONG SEAL MARK AND PERIOD blue double-circle and twelve further bats on the side within
another double-circle, the exterior repeating the motif with
the rounded sides rising from tapered foot to an everted rim, eight bats between an underglaze blue double-line border
covered allover in a light red glaze of crushed strawberry color, above and a keyfret band encircling the foot, each base with a
the rim and base glazed white, the base with a six-character six-character seal mark in underglaze blue (2)
seal mark in underglaze blue Diameter 6⅛ in., 5.5 cm
Diameter 8¼ in., 21 cm $ 3,000-5,000
PROVENANCE
Collection of Thomas English Cody (1889-1948), grand- 㶭忻⃱ġġġ
nephew of ‘Bu alo Bill’ Cody (1846-1917). 䣔䲭⼑㳒䤷滲⣑䲳䚌ᶨ⮵
$ 3,000-5,000 ˪⣏㶭忻⃱⸜墥˫㫦

㶭Ḧ昮ġġġ䲭慱䚌 807
˪⣏㶭Ḧ昮⸜墥˫㫦
808
808
PROPERTY FROM A VERMONT PRIVATE COLLECTION
12 SOTHEBY’S
A PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE ‘AUSPICIOUS
EMBLEMS’ DISHES
GUANGXU MARKS AND PERIOD

each nely decorated to the interior with interlinked composite
oral scrolls encircling a central oret, all surrounded by

beribboned ‘Eight Auspicious Emblems’ around the cavetto,
the exterior with three detached scrolling oral sprigs, the base
with a six-character mark in iron red (2)
Diameter 6 in., 15.2 cm
PROVENANCE
A Beijing collector, acquired in the 1940s.
Gifted in the 1970s to a Canadian missionary family in China,
and thence by descent.
$ 7,000-9,000

㶭⃱䵺ġġġ䰱⼑ℓ⎱䤍䲳䚌ᶨ⮵
˪⣏㶭⃱䵺⸜墥˫㫦