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A FINE WHITE-GLAZED CARVED
BOTTLE VASE
18th century
The compressed globular body finely carved around
the exterior with a frieze of lotus, peony and camellia
flowers, bordered by a band of stiff petal lappets
around the base and ruyi heads on the shoulders,
the tall neck with upright plantain leaves rising from
a key-fret border, the everted rim encircled by a ruyi-
head band, wood stand and box.
29.7cm (11 3/4in) high. (3).

£10,000 - 12,000
CNY91,000 - 110,000

十八世紀 白釉雕花纏枝花卉紋天球瓶
Provenance: E.T.Chow Collection (1910-1980)
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 25 November 1980, lot 59
A European private collection

來源：
仇炎之先生舊藏
1980年11月25日於香港蘇富比拍賣，拍品59號
歐洲私人收藏

Compare with a carved white-glazed bottle vase
similarly carved with floral scrolls to the globular
body below upright stiff leaves to the waisted
neck, illustrated by R.L.Hobson in The George
Eumorfopoulos Collection Catalogue of the Chinese,
Corean and Persian Pottery and Porcelain, vol.5,
London, 1927, pl.LXI, no.E344.

Edward T. Chow (1910-1980)
Edward T. Chow resided in the French Concession of
Shanghai and lived briefly in New York, before moving
to Hong Kong in 1949 and then Switzerland in 1967.
He was amongst the most respected dealers of his
generation and known for his three fundamental tenets
in building his collection: rarity, quality and decoration.

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