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A PAIR OF PINK-ENAMELLED BOWLS A CLAIR-DE-LUNE GLAZED ‘BAMBOO’ BRUSHPOT
First half of the 20th century 20th century
Each thinly potted and raised on a high, straight foot ring, the exterior The moulded brushpot formed as a bamboo stem section with smaller
covered in an even pink enamel, the interior and base left white, the shoots, lingzhi and bats encircling the exterior, the glazed base with
bases with apocryphal, blue-enamelled Yongzheng four-character tiny spur marks.
marks within a square, fitted fabric box. 14cm (5 1/2in) diam. (3). 14.5cm (5 3/4in) high

£1,000 - 1,500 £2,000 - 3,000
CNY9,700 - 15,000 CNY19,000 - 29,000
HK$12,000 - 18,000 HK$24,000 - 35,000

Provenance 73
A private collection formed in Hong Kong in the 1950s, and thence by A GILT-DECORATED ROBIN’S EGG STYLE-GLAZED BALUSTER
descent. VASE
Impressed Qianlong seal mark, 20th century
71 The exterior with gilt-embellished moulded low relief panels of
A TURQUOISE-GLAZED SPITTOON, ZHADOU cavorting chilong, the Eight Buddhist Emblems, bamboo leaves and
Zhanjingzhai zhi four-character mark, Qing Dynasty prunus flowers, the wide shoulders with humorously modelled lion
The globular body raised on short foot rim, the gently flaring mouth heads, all on a mottled robin’s egg glaze.
embellished with gilt at the rim, all covered in a bright sea-green glaze. 28cm (11in) high
8.7cm (3 1/2in) high
£800 - 1,200
£1,000 - 1,500 CNY7,700 - 12,000
CNY9,700 - 15,000 HK$9,400 - 14,000
HK$12,000 - 18,000

湛靜齋 zhanjingzhai, or The Studio of Profound Tranquillity was
located in Imperial Palace in Beijing. There are at least twelve pieces of
porcelain in the Palace Museum collection with this unusual mark.

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