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A RARE FINELY PAINTED MING-STYLE BLUE 清雍正 青花喜上梅梢扁壺
AND WHITE MOONFLASK
來源:
QING DYNASTY, YONGZHENG PERIOD
英國多塞特郡私人收藏,1920年代中購入
the flattened circular body rising from a slightly concave base
to a cylindrical neck gradually flaring towards the rim, set
with a pair of ruyi scrolled handles, the body deftly painted
in rich cobalt-blue tones with simulated ‘heaped and piled’
effect, depicting on one side a magpie perched on a bough of
flowering prunus beside leafy bamboo, the reverse similarly
decorated with the perching bird rendered leaning forward on
a flowering and budding branch of prunus beside bamboo, all
between stylised flame scrolls at the shoulder and foot, the
neck painted with further leafy shoots of bamboo, the concave
base unglazed revealing the buff-coloured body
27.8 cm, 10⅞ in.
PROVENANCE
A private collection since the mid 1920s, Dorset.
HK$ 1,200,000-1,500,000
US$ 153,000-192,000
54 SOTHEBY’S 蘇富比