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A VERY RARE WHITE GLAZED ‘CUT-THROUGH’ ‘LOTUS’ BOWL
Qianlong seal mark and of the period
Thinly potted with rounded sides rising from a straight foot to a gently
flared rim, delicately pierced-through around the body with a broad
band of scrolling lotus blooms, applied overall with a transparent
unctuous glaze revealing the white body and intricate design.
13.5cm (5 1/4in) diam.
£30,000 - 50,000
CNY260,000 - 440,000
清乾隆 白釉玲瓏透花番蓮紋盌
青花「大清乾隆年製」篆書款

Provenance: P. Parizel collection, by repute
Galerie 41 Antiquités, Monaco
A European private collection, and thence by descent

來源：傳為P. Parizel舊藏
摩納哥古董商Galerie 41 Antiquités
歐洲私人收藏，並由後人保存迄今

This delicate bowl is notable for its exquisite lace-like decoration, which London, 1994, pl.793, and later sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong,
was made by piercing the body with a delicate openwork design of 8 October 2012, lot 3; a pair from the Alfred F. Pillsbury collection in
small perforations that were subsequently filled with a clear glaze. An the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, included in the exhibition Chinese
innovation of the Qianlong period, this decoration is known in the West Ceramics from the Prehistoric Period through Ch’ien-Lung, Los
as ‘grains-de-riz’ (rice grain), because the tiny perforations resembled Angeles, 1952, no.320; another slightly smaller pair in the Zhuyuetang
small grains of rice. Collection, illustrated by L.Schwartz-Arenales, eds, Mille ans de
Monochromes, Geneva, 2018, p.372, no.197a-b.
Compare with a related example, illustrated in Kangxi, Yongzheng,
Qianlong: Qing Porcelain from the Palace Museum Collection, Hong See also a similar white glazed ‘cut-out’ decoration bowl and cover,
Kong, 1989, pl.147; another in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, Qianlong seal mark and of the period, which was sold at Christie’s
published by J.Ayers and S.Masahiko, eds, Ceramic Art of the World, New York, 21-22 March 2013, lot 1501. A similar pair of bowls,
vol.15, Tokyo, 1983, pl.280; one with a more elaborate motif illustrated Qianlong seal marks and of the period, was sold at Sotheby’s London,
by R.Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol.2, 6 November 2019, lot 7.

For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot
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