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二 22. A Chinese imperial porcelain blue-glazed bowl with deep rounded sides rising from a straight foot rim, covered on the exterior with

御 a luminous royal-blue glaze pooling to a slightly darker tone above the foot, the interior and base glazed white.
製 5 ¾ inches, 14.7 cm diameter.
霽 Six-character mark of Kangxi within a double ring in underglaze blue and of the period, 1662-1722.

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釉 • Formerly in the collection of Professor Edward T. Hall, no. 303.
盌 • Edward ‘Teddy’ Thomas Hall, C.B.E., Hon. F.B.A., F.S.A., D.Phil (1924-2001), was born in London and educated at Eton

College and New College, Oxford, where he received his D.Phil in 1953. He joined the R.N.V.R. as an ordinary seaman in

清 1943 and served in landing craft transporting commandos to France. Perhaps his greatest achievement was developing the
康 carbon dating process, which was used to expose the Piltdown Man fraud. He was the founder of the Research Laboratory for
熙 Archaeology and the History of Art at Oxford University.

《 • Sold by Christie’s London in their auction of The E.T. Hall Collection of Chinese Monochrome Porcelains, 7th June 2004, no. 33.
大 • Sold by Marchant, 14th June 2004.
清 • A similar red glazed bowl is illustrated by Dr. Robert Jacobsen and Julian Thompson in Imperial Perfection, The Palace Porcelain of

康 Three Chinese Emperors, Kangxi-Yongzheng-Qianlong, A Selection from the Wang Xing Lou Collection, 2004, no. 88, pp. 226/7.

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