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AN UNUSUAL BLUE AND WHITE CUP PROPERTY OF A LADY 元 青花龍戲珠紋高足盌
MARK AND PERIOD OF KANGXI A BLUE AND WHITE ‘DRAGON’ STEM BOWL
with a band of trefoil-shaped sprigs formed from interlinked YUAN DYNASTY 來源：
stems, all above a single line border encircling the top of the 香港蘇富比2017年4月5日，編號3673
foot, the base inscribed with a six-character mark the exterior decorated with a single long three-clawed dragon
8.8 cm, 3⅜ in. chasing a ‘flaming pearl’ and writhing sinuously around the 高足盃形，繪遊龍爭珠，龍體雄健，畫意率真，見於
vessel, the interior centred with a further ‘flaming pearl’ and 蒙元一代。類例罕見，相若瓷盃，有飾龍或鳳紋者，
PROVENANCE encircled by a classic scroll at the rim, further detailed with
a moulded design of two dragons around a central rosette 出土於內蒙古元代集寧路古城遺址，參考一龍紋高足
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 17th/18th May 1988, lot 189.
medallion 盃，見陳永志編，《內蒙古集寧路古城遺址出土瓷
11.9 cm, 4⅝ in. 器》，北京，2004年，圖版46，或三件鳳紋高足盃，圖
HK$ 150,000-200,000 版42-4，亦有見數盃出土時整齊置於一甕罐內，參見頁
US$ 19,400-25,900 PROVENANCE 12。
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 5th April 2017, lot 3673.
A similar pair of cups from the Percival David Foundation of
Chinese Art is included Margaret Medley, Illustrated Catalogue of HK$ 600,000-800,000
Porcelains Decorated in Underglaze Blue and Copper Red in the US$ 78,000-104,000
Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, London, 1968, p. 42,
nos A688 and A689. The former cup is still in the Foundation, but Stem bowls with such freely executed sketches of vigorous
the latter was sold four times in our rooms: twice in London, 15th dragons chasing ‘flaming pearls’ appear to have been in use
October 1968, lot 141, and 8th July 1974, lot 306; and twice in Hong throughout China during the Yuan dynasty, although extant
Kong, 14th November 1989, lot 74, and 11th April 2008, lot 3053.
examples are rare. Similar stem bowls, decorated both with
dragons and with phoenix, were excavated from the Yuan city
site at Jininglu in Inner Mongolia, see Chen Yongzhi, ed., Nei

清康熙 青花卷草紋小盃
Menggu Jininglu gu cheng yizhi chutu ciqi/Porcelain Unearthed
《大清康熙年製》款 from Jininglu Ancient City Site in Inner Mongolia, Beijing, 2004,
pl. 46, for a dragon stem cup, pls 42-4, for three stem bowls
來源： with phoenix, and p. 12, for several pieces packed together in a
香港蘇富比1988年5月17/18日，編號189 jar, as found on site.

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PROPERTY OF A LADY
A FINE PUCE-ENAMELLED BLUE AND WHITE
‘EIGHT IMMORTALS’ BOWL
SEAL MARK AND PERIOD OF DAOGUANG
painted in underglaze blue with the Eight Immortals carrying
their various attributes, riding on various sea creatures or
plants, journeying across a ground of cresting waves in puce
enamel, the interior similarly decorated with Shoulao and a
deer amongst puce waves below scrolling clouds, the base
inscribed with a six-character seal mark
22.1 cm, 8⅝ in.
PROVENANCE
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 5th April 2017, lot 3706.

HK$ 120,000-150,000
US$ 15,600-19,400

清道光 青花胭脂紅八仙過海紋盌

《大清道光年製》款
來源：
香港蘇富比2017年4月5日，編號3706