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A FAMILLE-ROSE ‘THREE Compare a closely related bowl in the Wah Kwong
ABUNDANCES’ BOWL Collection, included in the exhibition Ch’ing
QIANLONG SEAL MARK AND Porcelain from the Wah Kwong Collections, The
PERIOD Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1973, cat.
no. 106; another was included in the Oriental
the deep rounded sides rising from a short Ceramic Society of Hong Kong exhibition Ch’ing
tapered foot, decorated to the exterior with three Polychrome Porcelain, Fung Ping Shan Museum,
fruiting sprays, including pomegranate, lychee, 1977, cat. no. 86; and a third is illustrated in
and peach, together forming the auspicious Gordon Lang, The Powell-Cotton Collection of
sanduo (Three Abundances), the base with a six- Chinese Ceramics, Birchington, 1988, col. pl. 16.
character seal mark in underglaze blue See also a closely related bowl sold in our London
Diameter 6 in., 15 cm rooms, 12th May 2010, lot 192; and another sold
twice in our Hong Kong rooms, 18th May 1988, lot
PROVENANCE 285, and again, 27th April 2003, lot 197.
John Sparks, London. $ 20,000-30,000
Sotheby’s New York, 22nd-23rd September
2004, lot 318.
John Sparks 318
2004 9 22 23
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