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PROPERTY FROM AN ASIAN PRIVATE COLLECTION 清康熙 青花團鳳紋葵瓣式盌
A RARE BLUE AND WHITE ‘PHOENIX 《大清康熙年製》款
MEDALLION’ BOWL
來源：
MARK AND PERIOD OF KANGXI
香港蘇富比1987年5月20日，編號449
well potted with deep rounded sides divided into eight lobes
and rising to an undulating rim, all supported on a lobed foot
of corresponding form, each panel of the exterior meticulously
decorated with a phoenix roundel, between friezes of lotus
scrolls encircling the rim and lower body, the foot further
skirted with a key-fret band, the interior centred with a lobed
cartouche enclosing a phoenix flanked by outstretched wings
and portrayed with billowing tail feathers, all below a further
lotus band below the rim, the base inscribed with a six-
character reign mark within a double circle
24.3 cm, 9½ in.
PROVENANCE
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 20th May 1987, lot 449.
HK$ 500,000-800,000
US$ 64,000-102,000

Both the form and design of this bowl are likely to be rooted
in the Xuande period prototypes that were developed at the
Jingdezhen kilns in the early Ming dynasty. For two Xuande
reign-marked examples, see a lobed bowl decorated on the
exterior with ‘dragon’ medallions, illustrated in Sekai toji
zenshu/Ceramic Art of the World, vol. 14, Tokyo, 1976, pl.
152; and another, included in the exhibition Ming Porcelains,
China Institute, New York, 1970, cat. no. 14 and later sold
in these rooms, 18th November 1986, lot 40, from the T.Y.
Chao collection. This lobed form and motif are also employed
on other vessels of the period, including two brush washers
from the Qing court collection and still preserved in the
Palace Museum, Beijing, one decorated with dragons and the
other with phoenix, illustrated in The Complete Collection of
Treasures of the Palace Museum: Blue and White Porcelain with
Underglazed Red (I), Hong Kong, 2000, pls 128 and 129.
For closely related Kangxi reign-marked examples, compare
one sold at Christie’s London, 8th December 1986; and
another sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 2nd November 1999, lot
582, and again, 27th May 2008, lot 1826.

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