PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF WAI-CHING AND WAI-KAM HO (LOTS 1472-1483) One of the world's pre-eminent historians of Chinese art, Wai-kam Ho was curator at the Cleveland Museum of Art from 1959 to 1983, later moved to Kansas City, where he held the Laurence Sickman Curatorship of Chinese Art at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art from 1984-1994, and, at the end of his life, was guest curator at the Shanghai Museum. This collection of fine, late Qing Imperial porcelain was formed with his wife, Wai-Ching, a statistician and educational researcher, whose interest in Chinese ceramics began when she studied with Sherman Lee. The taste and connoisseurship of Wai-kam and Wai-Ching Ho are reflected in this exceptional personal collection.

A FAMILLE ROSE YELLOW-GROUND 'MAGPIE' DISH

TONGZHI FOUR-CHARACTER MARK IN IRON-RED AND OF THE PERIOD (1862-1874)

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A FAMILLE ROSE YELLOW-GROUND 'MAGPIE' DISH
TONGZHI FOUR-CHARACTER MARK IN IRON-RED AND OF THE PERIOD (1862-1874)
Decorated on the interior with numerous black magpies in flight amidst flowering pink peach blossoms, all reserved on a yellow enamel ground beneath a gilt rim, the exterior decorated with three scrolling foliate sprays
11¼ in. (28.6 cm.) diam.

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For a discussion of this pattern, part of a significant group of porcelains produced for the celebration of the wedding of Cixi's son Zaichun, the Tongzhi Emperor, see R. Longsdorf, "The Tongzhi Imperial Wedding Porcelain", Orientations, October, 1996, pp. 69-78, where vessels from this pattern are illustrated, figs. 14, 33 and 34. Compare, also, the famille rose-decorated yellow-ground 'magpie' dish illustrated by van Oort in Chinese Porcelain of the 19th and 20th Centuries, The Netherlands, 1977, p. 70, pl. 55.