CIRCA 1785
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A FAMILLE ROSE "HONG" BOWL
CIRCA 1785
Finely enameled around the exterior with a continuous scene of the Canton waterfront showing numerous Western and Chinese figures at leisure or labor before and within the foreign factories, a complex interior border encloses purple Chinese landscape vignettes above iron-red Western rural vignettes, the bowl a pair to lot 51
12½ in. (31.8 cm.) diameter
CIRCA 1785
Finely enameled around the exterior with a continuous scene of the Canton waterfront showing numerous Western and Chinese figures at leisure or labor before and within the foreign factories, a complex interior border encloses purple Chinese landscape vignettes above iron-red Western rural vignettes, the bowl a pair to lot 51
12½ in. (31.8 cm.) diameter
Provenance
With The Art Exchange, New York City.
A Philadelphia private collection; sold Sotheby's, New York, 25 January 1989, lot 280.
A Philadelphia private collection; sold Sotheby's, New York, 25 January 1989, lot 280.
Literature
S. Sherrill, 'Living with Antiques: An American Furniture Collection in Pennsylvania', The Magazine Antiques, October 1972, Volume CII, No. 4, p. 659 (illustrated).
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