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PROPERTY FROM THE HOBART COLLECTION
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A RARE YELLOW-GROUND GREEN-ENAMELLED ‘PEACH AND
BIRD’ BOWL
Yongzheng six-character mark and of the period
Well potted with deep rounded sides supported on a tapered foot ring, A bowl similar to the present lot is illustrated by John Ayers, Far
the exterior finely incised and reserved in green enamel against the Eastern Ceramics in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1980,
yellow-glazed ground with a repeated pattern of a fruiting peach tree pl. 210. One example was sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 8 October
and blossoming sprays growing adjacent to a garden rock, with two 2013, lot 3122; and another at Christie’s Hong Kong, 28 October
birds perched on the grass and two further birds in flight, all between a 2002, lot 740; and a third example was sold in our London rooms 17
pair of incised lines filled with green enamel at the rim and another pair May 2012, lot 329.
of incised lines around the foot ring, the yellow base inscribed in brown
with the six-character reign mark within a double circle.
4 7/8in (12.4cm) diam.
$20,000 - 30,000

清雍正 黃地綠彩花鳥圖盌 《大清雍正年製》款

Provenance:
Virginia Hobart (1876-1958), and thence by descent

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