A rare famille-rose shell-shaped ink palette, Jiaqing seal mark and period | 清嘉慶 粉彩寶螺形筆掭 《大清嘉慶年製》款
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March 17, 08:20 PM GMT
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
A rare famille-rose shell-shaped ink palette
Jiaqing seal mark and period
清嘉慶 粉彩寶螺形筆掭
《大清嘉慶年製》款
well modeled as a flattened conch shell with stepped layers depicting the spiraled cone shape, the exterior textured with raised dots under a pale turquoise-green enamel, the opening of the shell formed as the sunken well painted in shades of iron red, the rim gilt, the white-glazed base with a recessed square enclosing a six-character seal mark in underglaze blue
Width 3 ⅜ in., 8.7 cm
Sotheby's Hong Kong, 25th April 2004, lot 59 (one of a pair).
Bonhams Hong Kong, 24th November 2012, lot 536.
來源
香港蘇富比2004年4月25日，編號59（一對之一）
香港邦瀚斯2012年11月24日，編號536
Compare a closely related famille-rose ink palette of this rare form, first sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 30th April 2001, lot 757, and later in our Hong Kong rooms, 8th April 2001, lot 3089. See also a Qianlong example sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 27th and 28th October 1992, lot 148.