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A carved 'Lotus' Cizhou dish,…
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Melbourne
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21-Jul-2024
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A carved 'Lotus' Cizhou dish, Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127), property from the Walter Hochstadter Collection. The interior of the dish is carved with creamy white slip with a lotus against a combed ground. 4.5 cm high; 19.5 cm diameter. Similar example: a carved 'Cizhou' 'Floral' bowl from the collection of Dr. Kenneth Lawley (1937-2023), Sold 3,048 Gbp at Sotheby's London on January 11, 2023, 19.5 x 4.5 high cm. Provenance: The Walter Hochstadter Collection. The Estate of the late Walter Hochstadter and Alice Chu, acquired by Walter Hochstadter prior to 1997 hence by descent. Walter Hochstadter was a well known and distinguished dealer of Chinese Art, born in Krumbach (Germany) in 1914. In the late 1930's he emigrated to the United States and died in Melbourne, Australia in 2007. He was a member of the Oriental ceramic Society (USA) from 1953-1982. A large number of the Hochstadter Collection was sold at Christies New York, 18th/19th March 2009, with a piece lot 518 reaching 2 million US dollars.
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Antiquities: Asian