A 'famille-rose' bowl, Republican period
Estimate $1,000 – $1,500
thinly potted and delicately enamelled with five sages and four boy attendants admiring a scroll in a garden setting, inscribed with a poetic couplet and three seals, all between blue enamel ruyi head and key-fret borders repeated on the interior, the base with an apocryphal four-character Qianlong mark in blue enamel
13 cm diameter
- Lot Sold $1,900 (Hammer Price)
- $2,318 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)
Literature
Compare with a pair of bowls from the Weishaupt Collection, illustrated by Gunhild Avitabile From the Dragon's Treasure no.196; one bowl sold Bonham's London, 10 November 2011, lot 276
Condition Report
Generally good condition.
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Alison Alford
Ann Roberts
Harley Young
Anthony Hurl
Philip A. Gore