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THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN 士紳藏品
Lots 138-139

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A VERY RARE BLUE AND WHITE ‘LOTUS’ BOWL, LIANZI WAN A very similar bowl is included in the collection of the Freer Gallery of
Yongle Art, at the Smythsonian Institute, Washington DC, no.F1951.14a-b.
The bowl with deep sides rising from a slightly tapered foot, finely Another is illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the
painted on the exterior in dark blue tones with a band of elongated Palace Museum: Underglaze blue and red porcelain wares, Hong
lotus petals below a key-fret band around the rim, the interior with a Kong, 2000, pl.75. Another ‘lotus’ bowl, Yongle, from the Percival
central spray of fruiting loquat within double circles, surrounded by David Collection, now in the British Museum, London is illustrated in
leafy scrolls of alternating blossoming camellias and chrysanthemum Underglaze Blue and Copper Red Decorated Porcelains in the Percival
flowerheads and a band of breaking waves at the rim, the deep tones David Foundation of Chinese Art, London, 2004, no.B637, p.85; a
of cobalt with extensive ‘heaping and piling’. final example is illustrated by R.Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the
21cm (8 2/8in) diam. Meiyintang Collection, London, 1994, vol.2, fig.670, and was later sold
at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 9 October 2012, lot 1851.
£60,000 - 80,000
CNY540,000 - 720,000 Two related bowls were sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 1 December
2009, lot 1871, and 31 May 2010, lot 1851; another, from the Lord
Cunliffe Collection, was sold at Bonhams London, 12 May 2016, lot 38.
明永樂 青花蓮瓣纏枝番紋蓮子盌

Provenance: Sotheby’s Amsterdam, 14 November 2005, lot 7
A European private collection

來源：2005年11月14日於阿姆斯特丹蘇富比拍賣，拍品7號
歐洲私人收藏

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