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A pair of famille-rose bowls, Shendetang marks, Qing dynasty,…
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Auction Location:
Melbourne
Date:
24-Oct-2018
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Description:
A pair of famille-rose bowls, Shendetang marks, Qing dynasty, Daoguang period, each of wide rounded form with lipped rim, decorated on the exterior with a scene of a pair of ducks swimming in a lotus pool with flowers and foliage rising from the water, the base inscribed in iron-red with a four-character mark, (2), 14 cm diameter. Provenance: The Weishaupt Collection, Berlin. Sotheby's, Amsterdam, 12 May 1998, lot 350. Sotheby's, Melbourne, 28 October 2008, lot 248. Private Collection, Melbourne, acquired from the above. Literature: Gunhild Avitable, From the Dragon's Treasure: Chinese Porcelain from the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries in the Weishaupt Collection, Bamboo Publishing, England, 1987, no. 64 (illustrated)
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Category:
Oriental: Ceramics - Chinese