Asian Art I - 21st May 2014
Lot 4
A Chinese famille rose chicken bowl six character Qianlong seal mark and probably of the period
Estimate £5,000 - £8,000 | Hammer £88000
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Description
A Chinese famille rose chicken bowl six character Qianlong seal mark and probably of the period, finely painted to the exterior with a young boy and a cockerel with blue rockwork and peony, the reverse with a hen and her chicks below a poetic inscription, together with a four-legged hardwood stand, 8.1cm dia. (2)
Provenance: Lt Col John Grenville Fortescue (1896-1969), of Dropmore, Buckinghamshire and Boconnoc, Cornwall, and thence by descent.