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CHINESE CERAMICS: A PRIVATE COLLECTION 清康熙 黃地綠彩堆花祥雲紋盌
A RARE YELLOW-GROUND GREEN-ENAMELED 《大清康熙年製》款
‘CLOUD SCROLL’ BOWL
MARK AND PERIOD OF KANGXI
the base with a six-character mark in underglaze blue within
a double circle
Diameter 5¼ in., 13.3 cm
Although yellow-ground green-enameled bowls from the
Kangxi reign are not uncommon, it is extremely rare to
find such a design of cloud scrolls outlined in slip. Finely
delineated, the slip detailing presents another technical
challenge that the potter has successfully mastered.
A pair of similar bowls was sold in our Hong Kong rooms,
14th November 1989, lot 287. Another pair with deeper sides
was sold in our London rooms, 10th November 2004, lot 667.
Compare a similar bowl but with aubergine clouds on a green
ground, illustrated in Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong: Qing
Porcelain from the Palace Museum Collection, Hong Kong,
1989, pl. 108. See another bowl with deeper sides, enameled
with green clouds on a yellow ground but lacking the slip
decoration, in the collection of the Tsinghua University Art
Museum, Beijing.
$ 20,000-30,000
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CHINESE CERAMICS: A PRIVATE COLLECTION Herman Lindberg was a Swedish physician who donated part
A RARE AUBERGINE-GLAZED BOWL of his Chinese art collection to the Museum of Far Eastern
MARK AND PERIOD OF KANGXI Antiquities in Stockholm in 1990. He inherited his love of
Chinese art from his father, Gustaf Lindberg (1887-1961). The
the base with a six-character mark in underglaze blue within elder Lindberg, a peer of fellow connoisseurs King Gustaf
a double circle VI Adolf of Sweden and Carl Kempe, also wrote on his and
Diameter 5 in., 12.5 cm Kempe’s collections of Chinese ceramics.
PROVENANCE $ 15,000-20,000
Collection of Dr. Herman Lindberg.
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 28th November 1978, lot 142. 清康熙 茄皮紫釉盌
EXHIBITED 《大清康熙年製》款
K’ang-Hsi Porcelain, Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities,
Stockholm, 1973. 來源
Herman Lindberg 醫生收藏
LITERATURE 香港蘇富比1978年11月28日，編號142
Jan Wirgin, K’ang-Hsi Porcelain: Selected Objects from 展覽
Swedish Collections, Stockholm, 1974, pl. 49:a.
《K’ang-Hsi Porcelain》，東方博物館，斯德哥爾
A pair of similar bowls formerly in the Hon. Mountstuart 摩，1973年
Elphinstone, E.G. Kostolany, H.M. Knight and E.T. Hall
Collections was sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 2nd May 2000, 出版
lot 522. See also two pairs sold at Christie’s Hong Kong: 17th Jan Wirgin，《K’ang-Hsi Porcelain: Selected Objects from
January 1989, lot 795, and 30th October 2001, lot 792.
Swedish Collections》，斯德哥爾摩，1974年，圖版
Compare similarly glazed bowls, but each with a straight 49:a
lip: one from the Baur Collection, exhibited in A Millennium
of Monochromes: From the Great Tang to the High Qing.
The Baur and the Zhuyuetang Collections, The Baur
Foundation, Geneva, 2018, cat. no. 106. Another was included
in Splendour of the Qing Dynasty, Hong Kong Museum of
Art, 1992, cat. no. 222, and a pair from the Pei Shan Tang
Collection was exhibited in Monochrome Ceramics of Ming
and Ch’ing Dynasties, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong,
1977, cat. no. 28.

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