A RARE IRON-RED 'IMMORTALS' BOWL MARK AND PERIOD OF KANGXI | 清康熙 礬紅墨彩群仙圖盌 《大清康熙年製》款
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October 9, 08:09 AM GMT
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300,000 - 400,000 HKD
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A RARE IRON-RED 'IMMORTALS' BOWL
MARK AND PERIOD OF KANGXI
清康熙 礬紅墨彩群仙圖盌
《大清康熙年製》款
superbly painted in shaded tones with immortals, an attendant and two deer, one immortal portrayed holding a double-gourd from which a crane emerges, with details further picked out in black, the base with an underglaze-blue six-character reign mark, Japanese wood box
17.2 cm, 6 ¾ in.
Collection of Emile Mancel (1831-1909), French consul stationed in Beijing, Macau and Hong Kong.
法國駐北京、澳門及香港領事 Emile Mancel（1831-1909年）收藏
Bowls of this form enamelled with large figures are rare. Another example, possibly the pair to this bowl, is illustrated in Recent Acquisitions, Marchant, London, 2006, cat. no. 11. A closely related but unmarked bowl from the Qing Court collection and still in Beijing, is illustrated in Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong: Qing Porcelain from the Palace Museum Collection, Hong Kong, 1989, no. 47. Emile Mancel (1831-1909) was a French high official stationed in Beijing, Macau and Hong Kong and recipient of the Gold Dragon Medal. In 1862 he was appointed as an Honorary Consul in Canton (modern day Guangzhou). His letters state that he purchased his porcelain from other French officers while in China.