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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION

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A BLUE AND WHITE ‘NARRATIVE’ SHALLOW

BOWL

KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)

The dish is decorated with a scene from the ‘Romance of the
Western Chamber’, Xi Xiang Ji, depicting the scene at the Buddhist
Pu Jiu temple where Zhang Sheng meets Cui Yingying and her
mother, surrounded by Buddhist monks playing instruments before
an altar. Inscribed with a two-line inscription describing the scene.
The underside base is inscribed with an apocryphal Jiajing six-
character mark.
6¡ in. (16.1 cm.) diam., box

HK$70,000-90,000 US$9,100-12,000

EXHIBITED:

China Institute in America, New York, Chinese Ceramics of the
Transitional Period 1620-1683, 21 October 1983-29 January 1984
Kimball Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, Chinese Ceramics of the
Transitional Period 1620-1683, 26 May-26 August 1984

LITERATURE:

122 S. Little, Chinese Ceramics of the Transitional Period 1620-1683, New
York, 1984, no. 54

The inscription reads Zhong sheng Fo Hao, ban tian feng yu sa song shao,
which has been translated by S.I. Hsiung, The Romance of the Western
Chamber (Xi Xiang Ji), New York, 1968, p. 42, to read:

‘The ringing of the bell, and the invocation to Buddha;
Are like a sudden storm of wind and rain among the pine trees.’

清康熙 青花西廂記故事圖盤

ANOTHER PROPERTY THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN

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A SET OF FOUR SMALL BLUE AND WHITE A BLUE AND WHITE OGEE DISH

‘PHOENIX AND BAMBOO’ CONICAL BOWLS QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE

KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722) AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

Each bowl is finely decorated in pencilled style with a phoenix The dish is well painted with a stylised six-petalled flowerhead
within the sunken central medallion encircled by a classic scroll
in flight opposite two bamboo stems, each spilling over from the around the stepped sides, and with the Bajixiang on the widely
flaring cavetto. The exterior is decorated with five bats, wufu,
exterior to the interior. There is an apocryphal Chenghua mark to in flight above a sea of cresting waves crashing against four tall
rocky outcrops from which grow lingzhi fungus amidst the Eight
each of the underside base. Treasures.
9 in. (23 cm.) diam., box
4 in. (10.2 cm.) diam. (4)

HK$100,000-150,000 US$13,000-19,000

清康熙 青花鳳鳴在竹斗笠盌四件 HK$300,000-450,000 US$39,000-58,000

PROVENANCE:

Erik Akerlund (b. 1871), a well-known Swedish dentist and art
collector
Sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 30 May 2012, lot 4176

清乾隆 青花八吉祥壽山福海折腰盌 六字篆書款

來源：
瑞典著名牙醫兼藝術品收藏家Erik Akerlund（生於1871年）

72 香港佳士得，2012年5月30日，4176號