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PROPERTY FROM A CANADIAN PRIVATE COLLECTION Jingdezhen chutu Yuan Ming guanyao ciqi / Yuan’s and Ming’s A POWDER-BLUE-GROUND ‘FLORAL’ BOWL 清雍正 灑藍地留白菊紋葵花式盌
A MING-STYLE COPPER-RED DECORATED Imperial Porcelain Unearthed from Jingdezhen, Yan-Huang MARK AND PERIOD OF YONGZHENG 《大清雍正年製》款
‘THREE FISH’ STEMBOWL Art Museum, Beijing, 1999, cat. no. 193; and another in the the base with a six-character mark in underglaze blue within
National Palace Museum, Taiwan, illustrated in Mingdai
MARK AND PERIOD OF YONGZHENG Xuande guanyao jinghua tezhan tulu / Catalogue of the a double circle 來源
the interior of the stem with a six-character mark in Special Exhibition of Selected Hsüan-te Imperial Porcelains of Diameter 7⅝ in., 19.2 cm 愛德華•R•培根 (1848-1915) 收藏
underglaze blue the Ming Dynasty, National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1998, cat. 新澤西私人收藏
Height 4½ in., 11.5 cm no. 99, together with two similar stemcups of smaller size, PROVENANCE
cat. nos 81 and 87. Collection of Edward R. Bacon (1848-1915). 出版
New Jersey Private Collection. John Getz，《Catalogue of Chinese art objects : including
PROVENANCE
⊖ $ 20,000-30,000
Orientique, Hong Kong, 23rd August 1996. porcelains, potteries, jades, bronzes, and cloisonné enamels
LITERATURE
See a few published examples of this type, one illustrated in John Getz, Catalogue of Chinese art objects: including collected by Edward R. Bacon》，紐約，1919年，編號
John Ayers, Chinese Ceramics, The Koger Collection, London, 清雍正 釉裏紅三魚紋高足盌 porcelains, potteries, jades, bronzes, and cloisonné enamels 371
1985, pl. 97; and another from the T.Y. Chao Collection, 《大清雍正年製》款 collected by Edward R. Bacon, New York, 1919, cat. no. 371.
included in the exhibition Ming and Ch’ing Porcelain from
the Collection of the T.Y. Chao Family Foundation, Hong This striking bowl is decorated with the rarely used technique
Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1978, cat. no. 75, sold in 來源 of blowing cobalt-blue through a gauze-covered tube onto
our London rooms, 8th July 1974, lot 280 and then again 吉慶堂，香港，1996年8月23日 a porcelain surface applied with stencils to create a white
in our Hong Kong rooms, 19th May 1987, lot 264. Compare reserve design. Another bowl of this pattern in the Tsui
also a closely related example, previously in the Meiyintang Museum of Art, Hong Kong, is illustrated in Xu Shi Yishuguan
Collection, sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 8th April 2013, lot 36. / The Tsui Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1991, pl. 93. See also
a bowl of identical size, form and design from the Meiyintang
For a Ming prototype of this design, see a Xuande reign- Collection, illustrated in Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from
marked stembowl, excavated from the Xuande stratum of the Meiyintang Collection, vol. 2, London, 1994-2010, no. 842,
the Ming imperial kiln site, and included in the exhibition and sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 4th April 2012, lot 46.
Edward R. Bacon (1848-1915) was a lawyer, financier and a
notable figure in the American railroad industry, who was also
known for his extensive collection of Old Master Paintings
and Chinese art. John Getz wrote that Bacon was “among
those connoisseurs who long ago recognized the beauty and
intrinsic worth of Chinese art as manifested in ceramics,
cloisonné, bronze.”
$ 40,000-60,000
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