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Lot 342

A famille verte green-ground 'sanduo' bowl and cover
18th century

13 May 2010, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

£2,000 - £3,000

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A famille verte green-ground 'sanduo' bowl and cover

18th century
The steep sides of the bowl painted with three leafy sprigs issuing finger citrons, pomegranates and peach, together forming the Three Abundances, sanduo, interspersed by further blossoming floral sprays, the interior with a further peach spray, all against a celadon-enamelled ground, the base with apocryphal Chenghua six-character mark in underglaze blue, the flattened similarly enamelled, the cover with recessed knop painted with four-character Chenghua mark.
The cover 16.1cm (6¼in) diam. (2).

Footnotes

Compare a very similar example in the Palace Museum Collection, illustrated in Selected Porcelain of the Flourishing Qin Dynasty at the Palace Museum, Beijing, 1994, p.81, fig.42.

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