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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF JEANETTE CURUBY PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF DR. PETER M.
GREINER
A BLUE AND WHITE ‘EIGHT HORSES OF MU
WANG’ BOWL A BLUE AND WHITE ‘DAOIST EMBLEMS’
QING DYNASTY, SHUNZHI PERIOD BOWL
DAOGUANG SEAL MARK AND PERIOD
the widely ared sides painted to the exterior with seven
horses in a continuous landscape between line borders, the the aring ogee form supported by a broad, tapering foot, the
interior with the eighth horse resting in a recumbent position interior painted with a roundel of stylized chrysanthemum
between two rocky outcrops within a double-line central and peaches below eight Daoist emblems to the cavetto, the
medallion, the base with an apocryphal six-character Jiajing exterior painted with scrolling owers above a band of ruyi
mark encircling the foot, the base with a six-character seal mark
Diameter 6⅝ in., 17 cm Diameter 8 in., 20.3 cm

PROVENANCE PROVENANCE
Sotheby Parke Bernet, 26th-27th September 1978, lot 465.
Acquired in Boston, circa 1940-60, and thence by descent.
$ 3,000-5,000
Bowls of this type and period sold in our London rooms as part
of a group from the Collection of Peter and Nancy Thompson, 㶭忻⃱ġġġ曺剙㘿ℓẁ䲳㉀儘䙴
7th November 2012, lot 9; and at Christie’s New York, ˪⣏㶭忻⃱⸜墥˫㫦
21st/22nd March 2013, lot 1462.

$ 5,000-7,000

㶭枮㱣ġġġ曺剙䧮䌳ℓ榧⚾䙴
˪⣏㖶▱曾⸜墥˫ầ㫦

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