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御 28. A Chinese imperial porcelain large deep bowl with slightly everted foot and gently flared rim covered overall with a translucent pale
製 celadon glaze, carved on the exterior with six large ruyi-heads enclosing smaller ruyi-heads rising from a band of petals all beneath a
豆 keyfret band at the rim.
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釉 9 ⅜ inches, 23.8 cm diameter.
刻 Six-character mark of Yongzheng within a double ring in underglaze blue and of the period, 1723-1735.

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意 • Formerly in a Mid-Western USA private collection.
紋 • Purchased at Dulany’s, Birmingham, Michigan, 1984.
盌 • An identical bowl was sold by Sotheby’s Hong Kong in their auction of Important Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art,

28th November 1978, no. 197, purchased by Marchant and was sold again by Sotheby’s Hong Kong in their auction of

清 The Hall Family Collection of Imperial Ming and Qing Monochromes and Other porcelain, 2nd May 2000, no. 527 and is illustrated
雍 in Sotheby’s Hong Kong Twenty Years, no. 314.
正 • A similar bowl was included in The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Memorial Exhibition of The Charles Hoyt Collection, Boston,

《 no. 440.
大 • Ruyi-heads resemble the fungus of longevity, lingzhi, ruyi literally means ‘As you wish’. As a decorative motif, it forms the rebus
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shishi ruyi, ‘May all your wishes come true’ and would have symbolised good wishes to whoever used it.

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