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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE EUROPEAN COLLECTION
TWO FAMILLE ROSE YELLOW-GROUND 'FLOWER' DISHES AND A 'BIRTHDAY' BOWL
GUANGXU SIX-CHARACTER MARKS AND OF THE PERIOD (1875-1908)
Details
TWO FAMILLE ROSE YELLOW-GROUND 'FLOWER' DISHES AND A 'BIRTHDAY' BOWL
GUANGXU SIX-CHARACTER MARKS AND OF THE PERIOD (1875-1908)
Each dish is enamelled to the exterior with four large blossoms emerging from leafy scrolling tendrils. The interior is decorated with five flying bats in iron-red. The bowl is decorated with four roundels enclosing the characters 'wan shou wu jiang', which can be translated as 'ten thousand birthdays without end', separated by four beribboned wan symbols between clouds and crashing waves.
The dishes: 6 5/8 in. (16.8 cm.) diam.
The bowl: 4 7/8 in. (12.3 cm.) diam.
GUANGXU SIX-CHARACTER MARKS AND OF THE PERIOD (1875-1908)
Each dish is enamelled to the exterior with four large blossoms emerging from leafy scrolling tendrils. The interior is decorated with five flying bats in iron-red. The bowl is decorated with four roundels enclosing the characters 'wan shou wu jiang', which can be translated as 'ten thousand birthdays without end', separated by four beribboned wan symbols between clouds and crashing waves.
The dishes: 6 5/8 in. (16.8 cm.) diam.
The bowl: 4 7/8 in. (12.3 cm.) diam.
Provenance
The dishes: Christie's Singapore, The Yangzhitang Collection of Imperial Porcelain of the Late Qing Dynasty, 30 March 1997, lot 297 (part)
The bowl: Christie's Singapore, The Yangzhitang Collection of Imperial Porcelain of the Late Qing Dynasty, 30 March 1997, lot 261.
The bowl: Christie's Singapore, The Yangzhitang Collection of Imperial Porcelain of the Late Qing Dynasty, 30 March 1997, lot 261.
Literature
Exhibited
The bowl: Hong Kong, Chinese University of Hong Kong Art Gallery, Imperial Porcelain of Late Qing from the Kwan Collection, 1983, cat. no. 136.
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