Lot 1040
1040
A PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE YELLOW-GROUND 'MAGPIE AND PLUM BLOSSOM' BOWLS
A PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE YELLOW-GROUND 'MAGPIE AND PLUM BLOSSOM' BOWLS
A PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE YELLOW-GROUND 'MAGPIE AND PLUM BLOSSOM' BOWLS
A PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE YELLOW-GROUND 'MAGPIE AND PLUM BLOSSOM' BOWLS
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Chinese Art from the Collection of Dr. Hiroshi Horiuchi
A PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE YELLOW-GROUND 'MAGPIE AND PLUM BLOSSOM' BOWLS

GUANGXU SIX-CHARACTER MARKS IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1875-1908)

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A PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE YELLOW-GROUND 'MAGPIE AND PLUM BLOSSOM' BOWLS
GUANGXU SIX-CHARACTER MARKS IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1875-1908)
6 ½ in. (16.6 cm.) diam., Japanese wood box
Provenance
Saga Kinmoto (1922-1998, brother-in-law to Pujie) Collection, Tokyo.
Sen Shu Tey, Tokyo.
Exhibited
On loan: Tokyo National Museum, September 2022-June 2023.

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Lot Essay


The combination of magpies amidst plum blossoms alludes to the rebus sixi shangmei (four magpies settle on the branches of the plum tree), a homonym for 'may four-fold joy shine on you'. A bowl with similar decoration is illustrated in G. Avitabile, From the Dragon's Treasure: Chinese Porcelain from the 19th and 20th Centuries in the Weishaupt Collection, London, 1987, p. 113, no. 163.

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