Lot 1
Lot 1
A RARE BLUE AND WHITE 'LOTUS AND SHOU' BOWL

KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)

Price Realised GBP 3,000
Estimate
GBP 2,000 - GBP 3,000
Closed: 5 Aug 2020
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A RARE BLUE AND WHITE 'LOTUS AND SHOU' BOWL

KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)

Price Realised GBP 3,000
Closed: 5 Aug 2020
Price Realised GBP 3,000
Closed: 5 Aug 2020
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The bowl is decorated to the exterior with eight seal-script shou-characters above a band of lotus flowers resting on leafy tendrils. The interior is decorated to the centre with a large lotus flower-head. The base has an apocryphal Chenghua mark.

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614 in. (16 cm.) diam., hongmu stand
Provenance
Collection of A.C.Beeling, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands, circa 1960.
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