Katniss Xu
Business Coordinator / Senior Sale Coordinator
PROPERTY FROM THE RAY AND RUTH HILL PRIVATE COLLECTION
Lot 229
TWO POLYCHROMED-ENAMELED WARES Republic period
18 – 28 June 2023, 15:00 PDT
Online, Los AngelesUS$800 - US$1,200
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Hannah Thompson
Director
TWO POLYCHROMED-ENAMELED WARES
Republic period
The first, a bowl with a fluted rim surmounting a body of lobed section raised on a high foot, the surface enameled with lotus scrolls, bats, and shou characters; the second, an elongated quadrilobed bowl raised on tall foot, the surface enameled with lotus meander against a yellow ground; the third, a petal-rim dish raised on a tall foot, the interior enameled with a Buddhist lion and cub amidst cloud scrolls and against a yellow ground encircled by a keyfret patterned border.
8 1/8in (21cm); 7 1/4in (18.4cm); 9 1/8in (23.2cm) wide (3).
The first, a bowl with a fluted rim surmounting a body of lobed section raised on a high foot, the surface enameled with lotus scrolls, bats, and shou characters; the second, an elongated quadrilobed bowl raised on tall foot, the surface enameled with lotus meander against a yellow ground; the third, a petal-rim dish raised on a tall foot, the interior enameled with a Buddhist lion and cub amidst cloud scrolls and against a yellow ground encircled by a keyfret patterned border.
8 1/8in (21cm); 7 1/4in (18.4cm); 9 1/8in (23.2cm) wide (3).
Footnotes
Provenance:
Collection of Raymond G. Hill (1900-1981) and Ruth M. Hill (1908-1982), likely acquired in China in the 1920s-1930s, thence by descent
Ray and Ruth Hill lived in China in the 1920s and 1930s when Ray was Vice President at Citibank Asia Pacific.
