Lot #503 - A 'Famille-Rose' Bowl And Cover, Sealmarks Of Qianlng
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Auction House:Sotheby's Australia
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Sale Name:Fine Furniture & Decorative Arts
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Sale Date:14 May 2012 ~ 6.00pm (Lots 1-213)
15 May 2012 ~ 2.00pm (Lots 214-343)
15 May 2012 ~ 6.00pm (Lots 344-571) -
Lot #:503
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Lot Description:A 'Famille-Rose' Bowl And Cover, Sealmarks Of Qianlng
with deep rounded sides flaring to the lipped rim, finely painted with a fruiting and flowering gourd vine entwined around a spray of bamboo and with a hovering butterfly above, the stems extending over the rim onto the interior, the four large fruit and two butterflies picked out in pink, yellow and green enamels, the matching shallow domed cover with raised circular knop doubling as a foot when inverted, similarly painted on the exterior and interior with butterflies, fruiting vine and bamboo, the base of the bowl and the interior of the knop each inscribed with a six-character seal mark in underglaze-blue (2)
11cm -
References:Examples of bowls wiithout covers bearing six-character Qianlong seal marks and of the period in the Percival David Foundation, London, are published in the Illustrated Catalogue of Ch'ing Enamelled Wares, London 1958, no.897, and in The World's Great Collections, Oriental Ceramics, vol 6, Tokyo, 1982, no.274
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Estimate:A$6,000 - 8,000
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Realised Price:
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Category:Oriental
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