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145 1A4F6A*MILLE ROSE VASE
A RARE SANG-DE-BOEUF-GLAZED FAMILLE ROSE ‘LIU HAI’
SAUCER-DISH Shen de tang zhi mark
Yongzheng six-character mark and of the period, the enamels Brightly decorated on the body in vibrant pink, green, blue, yellow,
probably later purple and grey enamels with a continuous scene of five boys playing
The curved body with shallow, rounded sides, rising from a recessed in a garden, one lighting firecrackers whilst two boys cover their ears
circular foot, covered around the exterior with a rich red glaze falling with their hands, and two other boys conversing animatedly under
short of the foot rim, the interior delicately enamelled with Liu Hai a delicately blossoming tree, all between ruyi-head borders at the
wearing loose, patterned robes, holding a coin in his left hand and a foot and shoulder, beneath blooming lotus scrolls on a bright pink
twisted rope in the right hand, within four concentric bands of ruyi, ground on the neck, between dark red and gilt stylised animal handles
cell-patterns and leiwen, the base with a six-character Imperial kaishu on either side, the rim gilt-edged above a band of ruyi-head, the
mark in underglaze-blue within double circles. 15cm (5 7/8in) diam. underside with the four-character mark in dark red reserved on the
pale turquoise ground.
£4,000 - 6,000 CNY39,000 - 58,000 29.8cm (11 3/4in) high
HK$47,000 - 71,000

清雍正 外薺紅釉內粉彩劉海圖盤 £8,000-12,000 CNY77,000 - 120,000
青花「大清雍正年製」楷書款 HK$94,000 - 140,000

Provenance: an English private collection 粉彩童戲圖螭耳瓶
礬紅「慎德堂製」楷書款

來源： 英國私人收藏 Provenance: a Scottish private collection
Sold in these rooms on 17 May 2012, lot 355
此盤之圖案紋飾或為後繪 An Asian private collection

The Daoist god of wealth and prosperity, Liu Hai is often portrayed 來源： 蘇格蘭私人收藏
with a three-legged toad, believed to whisk him off to any destination.
In addition, the character for toad, chan, is homophone with 2012年5月17日於倫敦邦瀚斯拍賣，拍品355號
qian, meaning coin, which assigns the animal a further auspicious 亞洲私人收藏
symbolism. A ruby-back dish of very similar form and size depicting
the immortal Li Tieguai is in the Boymans-van Beuningen Museum,
Rotterdam, illustrated by C.J.A.Jörg, Oriental Porcelain, Rotterdam,
1995, no.26, and another sold at Christie’s London, 2 October 2013,
lot 61.