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PROPERTY FROM A CANADIAN PRIVATE COLLECTION Brilliantly painted, the distinctive mottled ‘heaped and piled’ PROPERTY FROM A CANADIAN PRIVATE COLLECTION
A LARGE BLUE AND WHITE MING-STYLE effect of classic Ming dynasty blue and white wares has been TWO UNDERGLAZE-BLUE AND COPPER-RED
‘EIGHT BUDDHIST EMBLEMS’ BOWL successfully simulated through the deliberate application ‘IMMORTALS’ DISHES
of darker and thicker spots of cobalt on the present bowl.
QIANLONG SEAL MARK AND PERIOD Echoing the Qianlong Emperor’s penchant for classicism and QING DYNASTY, 18TH / 19TH CENTURY
innovation, the bowl is elegantly decorated with the bajixiang
the deep rounded sides resting on a straight foot, finely and lotus, revisiting and reinterpreting early Ming designs each with shallow rounded sides, the short gently tapered
painted in ‘heaped and piled’ cobalt blue tones, with a band like the Xuande bowl illustrated in The Complete Collection foot rising to an everted rim, the exterior painted with the
of beribboned ‘Eight Buddhist Emblems’ above a stylized ‘Eight Daoist Immortals’ in underglaze blue against a swirling
lotus scroll and upright ruyi lappets, all between double-line of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Blue and White Porcelain ground of stylized copper-red waves, the interior centering
borders at the rim and a wave border encircling the foot, the with Underglazed Red (I), vol. 34, Hong Kong, 2000, pl. 147. a medallion enclosing Shoulao and a deer against a further
interior rim painted with a further border of crashing waves, A similar bowl is illustrated in Porcelain of the National Palace wave ground, cloud scrolls and a partially obscured sun
the center with a beribboned double-vajra medallion, the Museum: Blue and White Ware of the Ch’ing Dynasty, vol. II, above, the recessed bases glazed white with hallmarks in
base with a six-character seal mark in underglaze blue Hong Kong, 1968, pls 25a-e. See one sold at Christie’s New underglaze blue within double squares, one reading Qingyi
Diameter 10¼ in., 26 cm York, 4th June 1987, lot 281, and again in these rooms, 23rd tangzhi and the other Yanghe tangzhi (2)
September 2004, lot 309. Further examples have sold in our Diameter 6½ in., 16.3 cm
PROVENANCE Hong Kong rooms, 26th November 1980, lot 304, and 20th
Bluett & Sons Ltd., London. November 1985, lot 98. See also one sold at Christie’s New PROVENANCE
Canadian Private Collection, acquired from the above York, 22nd March 2019, lot 1826. Weisbrod & Dy, Toronto.
between the 1960s and 1980s, and thence by descent. Canadian Private Collection, acquired from the above
$ 15,000-20,000 between 1960s and 1980s, and thence by descent.
For dishes of this type with the Yanghe tang mark, see one
attributed to the 18th century and sold at Christie’s Hong Kong,
清乾隆 青花纏枝蓮八吉祥紋大盌 27th November 2007, lot 1692 (part lot). Another pair attributed
《大清乾隆年製》款 to the Qianlong period sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 8th October 151
2014, lot 3128. A bowl with this pattern, attributed to the 19th
來源 century, sold at Christie’s London, 11th November 2011, lot 1265.
Bluett & Sons Ltd.，倫敦 For pieces bearing the Qingyi tang marks and decorated in a
加拿大私人收藏，1960年代至1980年代購於上述處， similar manner, see a bowl and cover sold at Christie’s New
York, 22nd March 2012, lot 2018. Compare also a wine ewer
此後家族傳承 and warmer sold in these rooms, 15th March 2017, lot 521.
$ 10,000-15,000

清十八 / 十九世紀 青花釉裏紅八仙過海紋
盤兩件
《養和堂製》《慶宜堂製》款

來源
Weisbrod & Dy，多倫多
加拿大私人收藏，1960年代至1980年代購於上述處，
此後家族傳承

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PROPERTY OF A CALIFORNIA PRIVATE COLLECTOR
A COPPER-RED-GLAZED BOWL
YONGZHENG MARK AND PERIOD
the rounded sides rising from a short foot to a flared rim, the
interior and exterior covered in a deep copper-red glaze, the
base with a mark in underglaze blue within a double circle
Diameter 4⅞ in., 12.3 cm
PROVENANCE
Koninklijke Kunstzaal Kleykamp, The Hague (by repute).
European Private Collection, reputedly acquired from the
above between the 1920s and 1930s.
$ 4,000-6,000

清雍正 紅釉盌
《大清雍正年製》款
來源
Koninklijke Kunstzaal Kleykamp, 海牙（傳） 152
歐洲私人收藏，據傳於1920年代至1930年代之間得於
上述處
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