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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION
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A PAIR OF CORAL-GROUND RESERVE-DECORATED ‘LOTUS’
BOWLS
Qianlong underglaze blue seal marks and of the period
The bell-form bowls each raised on a short flared foot and decorated
with two rows of flower-heads and fronted lotus in an interlocking
network of leafy tendrils, the details finely rendered in iron-red and all
reserved on a rich coral ground.
5 1/8in (13cm) diameter; 2 1/2in (6.3cm) high (2).
$30,000 - 50,000
清乾隆 珊瑚紅地荷花紋盌一對 《大清乾隆年製》款

See S. Marchant and Son, Nineteenth Century Mark and Period
Porcelain, London, 7-28 June, 1992, no. 28, for a pair of Qianlong
mark and period bowls of identical decoration and size.

For a closely related example from the Daoguang period, see a pair
from the E.T. Chow Collection, sold in Hong Kong, 25, November
1980, lot 152, and later sold at Christie’s London, 11 November 2002,
lot 62.

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