Lot 318. An inscribed famille-verte brushpot, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period (1662-1722); h. 12.4 cm. Lot sold: 75,600 HKD (Estimate: 40,000 - 60,000 HKD). © 2023 Sotheby's

the inscribed poem may be translated as follows,

Do you not realise the peaches of the Queen Mother of the West take a thousand years to ripen,

For the time being let us amuse ourselves like Liu Lang.題詩：

未知王母千年熟

且共劉郎一咲同

Property from the Alleyne Collection.

Provenance: Spink & Son Ltd, London, 1978.

Lot 327. A coral-red ground underglaze-blue 'phoenix' bowl, Mark and period of Kangxi (1662-1722); d. 9.2 cm. Lot sold: 81,900 HKD (Estimate: 30,000 - 50,000 HKD). © 2023 Sotheby's

Provenance: Van Ham Kunstauktionen, Cologne (label).

Lot 341. A pair of wucai 'birthday' dishes, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period (1662-1722); d. 17.2 cm. Lot sold: 478,800 HKD (Estimate: 350,000 - 400,000 HKD). © 2023 Sotheby's

each base with an apocryphal Chenghua mark.

Provenance: Collection of The Hon. Irwin Boyle Laughlin (1871-1941), Meridian House, Washington, D.C.
By descent to his widow, Therese Iselin Laughlin (d. 1958).
By descent to their daughter, Gertrude Laughlin Chanler (1914-1999), Genesco, New York (until 1959).
Sotheby’s London, 30th June 1959, lot 81.
Sotheby’s New York, 1st June 1988, lot 177.
The Meiyintang Collection.

Literature: Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, London, 1994-2010, vol. 2, nos 773 - 4.

Dishes of this type, with butterfly and leaf decoration on the rim and various freely drawn figure scenes in the centre, are believed to have been made for the Kangxi Emperor’s 60th birthday in 1713, and some of them are inscribed with reign marks, but the majority is not.

Note: A similar dish of Kangxi mark and period in the Shanghai Museum is illustrated in Wang Qingzheng, ed., Kangxi Porcelain Wares from the Shanghai Museum Collection, Hong Kong, 1998, pl. 92; another in R.P. Marchant, ‘Some Interesting Pieces of Marked Ch’ing Porcelain’, Bulletin of the Oriental Ceramic Society of Hong Kong, no. 3, 1977-8, pls. 1-3.

A dish with a similar scene of ladies in a garden, pressing fabrics, also from the Laughlin and Chanler collections, was sold together with this pair in our London rooms, 30th June 1959, lot 84; and another dish with a scholar and boy on horseback was sold in our New York rooms, 7th December 1983, lot 362.

Lot 341. A famille-verte ‘landscape’ brushpot, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period (1662-1722); h. 15 cm. Lot sold: 327,600 HKD (Estimate: 80,000 - 120,000 HKD). © 2023 Sotheby's

Lot 360. A famille-verte basin, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period (1662-1722); d. 33.6 cm. Lot sold: 327,600 HKD (Estimate: 100,000 - 200,000 HKD). © 2023 Sotheby's

Provenance: Jorge Welsh, London.

Lot 382. A famille-verte 'chilong' libation cup, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period (1662-1722); w. 12.3 cm, wood stand. Lot sold: 52,920 HKD (Estimate: 30,000 - 50,000 HKD). © 2023 Sotheby's

Provenance: Collection of Hon. Mrs Nellie Ionides (1883 - 1962), and thence by descent.
Collection of the late Lord and Lady Swaythling, London.

Lot 383. A sancai Buddhist temple and a famille-verte boat, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period (1662-1722); temple l. 6 cm; boat l. 12.2 cm. Lot sold: 12,600 HKD (Estimate: 10,000 - 15,000 HKD). © 2023 Sotheby's

the temple with traces of the Buxted Park inventory number; the boat with a red inventory mark from the Buxted Park reading 33.

Provenance: Collection of Hon. Mrs Nellie Ionides (1883 - 1962), and thence by descent.
Collection of the late Lord and Lady Swaythling, London.

Lot 391. A group of yellow-ground sancai bowl and dishes, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period (1662-1722); bowl d. 19.2 cm; dish l. 21 cm. Lot sold: 32,760 HKD (Estimate: 26,000 - 30,000 HKD). © 2023 Sotheby's

comprising: a hexagonal ‘floral’ bowl, with wood stand, red inventory mark from Buxted Park reading 106, and an old Sotheby’s property valuation label, circa 1980s; and a pair of fan-shaped ‘dragon’ sweetmeat dishes.

Provenance: Bowl: Collection of Hon. Mrs Nellie Ionides (1883 - 1962), and thence by descent.
Collection of the late Lord and Lady Swaythling, London.
Dish: Collection of the late Lord and Lady Swaythling, London.

Sotheby's. CHINA / 5000 Years, Hong Kong, 25 November 2022