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A PAIR OF YELLOW-GROUND GREEN AND
AUBERGINE-GLAZED SAUCER-DISHES
Qianlong seal marks and of the period
Each finely incised in the interior with a medallion
enclosing two ferocious scaly dragons in mutual
pursuit of a flaming pearl, one glazed green, the other
aubergine and all reserved on a rich yellow ground,
the exterior with four green and aubergine-glazed
bunches of grapes. Each 13cm (5 1/8in.) diam. (2).

£6,000 - 8,000
CNY53,000 - 71,000

清乾隆 黃地素三彩雙龍戲珠紋盤兩只
青花「大清乾隆年製」篆書款

Provenance: an Asian private collection
來源：亞洲私人收藏

Compare with a similar pair of yellow-ground green
and aubergine-glazed saucer-dishes, Qianlong
seal marks and of the period, which were sold at
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 8 October 2013, lot 3266.

86
A FAMILLE ROSE AND UNDERGLAZE
85 BLUE YELLOW-GROUND ‘THREE RAMS’
MEDALLION BOWL
Guangxu six-character mark and of the period
The interior painted in underglaze blue with a central
roundel of three auspicious rams surrounded by four
flowering branches supporting ribboned auspicious
symbols, the exterior walls finely decorated with
three circular reserves of rams in landscapes
surrounded by flower-filled vases and other
ornaments rendered in bright enamels on the lemon-
yellow sgraffiato ground. 15cm (5 8/9in) diam.

£4,000 - 6,000
CNY35,000 - 53,000

清光緒 粉彩黃地軋道開光三羊開泰內青花盌
青花「大清光緒年製」楷書款

Provenance: Gustaf Oscar Wallenberg (1863-1937)
來源：瑞典外交官、政治家Gustaf Oscar
Wallenberg（1863-1937）舊藏

Gustaf Oscar Wallenberg was a Swedish diplomat
and politician. Originally a captain in the Swedish
navy, he left and devoted himself to maritime trade
in 1891. In the years 1900-1907 he was a member
of Parliament’s second chamber as representative
of the city of Stockholm. In 1906 he was appointed
envoy in Tokyo, and Beijing from 1907. Wallenberg
thus became the first permanently-stationed
Swedish career diplomat in East Asia. He returned
to Sweden in 1919 before becoming minister to
Turkey in Constantinople and later ambassador in
Sofia until 1930.
Compare with a very similar yellow-ground ‘three
rams’ bowl, Guangxu six-character mark and of the
86 period, which was sold at Sotheby’s New York, 18-
19 March 2014, lot 484.

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