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PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE CONNECTICUT COLLECTOR
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A COPPER-RED-GLAZED STEM BOWL
QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE
AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
The stem bowl is well potted with deep faring sides supported on a short, splayed pedestal
foot encircled by bow-stringbands, and the exterior is covered with a rich raspberry-red glaze
thinning to a light pink tone.
7¡ in. (18.8 cm.) diam., Japanese wood box
$20,000-30,000
(mark)

PROVENANCE
S. Marchant & Son, London, 20 June 1984, no. 64.
Christie’s New York, 20 September 2005, lot 289.
A similar stem bowl with a Qianlong seal mark was included in the Min Chiu Society exhibition,
Monochrome Ceramics of Ming and Ch’ing Dynasties, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1977, p. 32, no. 18;
and another is illustrated in Sekai toji zenshu, vol. 15, Tokyo, 1983, p. 207, fg. 96.
A stem bowl of similar size with a Yongzheng mark, is illustrated in Joined Colors: Decoration
and Meaning in Chinese Porcelain: Ceramics from Collectors in the Min Chiu Society, Hong Kong,
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 1993, p. 73, no. 2.
清乾隆 祭紅釉高足盌 六字篆書款

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