Asian Art II - 23rd May 2018

Lot 662

A CHINESE FAMILLE ROSE 'FOX HUNTING' BOWL QIANLONG 1736-95 Painted with a continuous hunting...

Estimate £1,000 - £1,500 | Hammer £2400

+ Buyers Premium

Description

A CHINESE FAMILLE ROSE 'FOX HUNTING' BOWL QIANLONG 1736-95 Painted with a continuous hunting scene with huntsmen and packs of hounds after a set of paintings by James Seymour (c.1702-52), with a band of spearheads to the foot, the interior with a mounted hunter and a floral band around the rim, the base with a paper label for Spink & Son, London, 39cm. Provenance: from the collection of Mr George Athenogenes, London. Cf. D S Howard, A Tale of Three Cities, Canon, Shanghai & Hong Kong, p.118, pl.144.