Sale 2138
Hong Kong
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7 July 2003
Price realised
HKD 31,070
Estimate
A RARE BLUE AND WHITE DEEP BOWL KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1662-1722) The bowl is thinly potted with deep rounded sides, painted with bright cobalt-blue outlines and filled in with wash on the exterior with detached fruiting sprigs of pomegranate, longyan, peach, wisteria, loquat and finger citrus above six floral sprays, the interior medallion enclosing a leafy sprig of lychee, surrounded on the cavetto with further floral sprays of lotus, peony and chrysanthemum, and a smaller band of florets below the rim, all within double-line borders (short hairline) 8 1/8 in. (20.6 cm.) diam., box
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Compare with a conical bowl painted with the identical design and a reign mark probably by the same hand, illustrated in The Tsui Museum of Art, Chinese Ceramics IV, Qing Dynasty, Hong Kong, 1995, pl. 51.
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