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PROPERTY FROM VARIOUS OWNERS Though unsigned, the lively birds on this bowl compare favorably
to similar underglaze blue birds found on the works of the 20th
8162 century ceramicist Wang Bu. For comparison, see two vessels sold
A CELADON GLAZED BOWL WITH UNDERGLAZE BLUE in these rooms: the brush pot offered as lot 8170 in sale 22510 of 10
DECORATION December 2015, as well as the miniature meiping offered as lot 7258
Jingdezhen zhi mark in sale 22411 of 23 June 2015.
Molded with a curving rim that arches inward above the floor of the
shallow well painted with two lively long-tailed birds flying above Several works of Wang's bearing a somewhat similar Jingdezhen zhi
a flower bud caught in the wind, the gray-green glaze covering all mark are published in Lai Suk Yee et al., Innovations and Creations:
surfaces except the recessed foot ring surrounding the countersunk a Retrospect of 20th Century Porcelain from Jingdezhen [Xinhuo
base showing the four-character mark in underglaze blue seal script. Yinghua: Ershi Shiji Jingdezhen Ciyi Huigu] (Hong Kong: Chinese
8 1/4in (21cm) diameter University of Hong Kong, 2004). See no. 153 specifically for a cong-
shaped vase dated to the 1950s or early 1960s.
US$8,000 - 12,000

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