A RARE MANDARIN PALETTE 'EUROPEAN SUBJECT' PUNCH BOWL, QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY
A RARE MANDARIN PALETTE 'EUROPEAN SUBJECT' PUNCH BOWL, QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURYEstimate $1,500 – $2,000
- Lot Sold $1,600 (Hammer Price)
- $1,920 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)
decorated with four traders seated at a table beside turreted buildings on a quayside with a fleet at anchor in the bay, and a semi-clad boy approaching a couple tending a cow in a similar setting with a fleet's masts in the distance, in two panels within underglaze-blue floral scroll borders and interspersed with iron-red landscape vignettes and flowers; together with a floral decorated Chinese Imari dish
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29.4CM, 38.5CM
A similar bowl was sold at Sotheby's London 8th November 1994, lot 324