£7,500
Fine Asian & Islamic Works of Art | 682
Auction: 13 May 2022 at 11:00 BST
清 粉彩神仙人物紋大碗
of generous proportions, finely enamelled in a cartouche on the exterior with numerous immortals, including the Eight Immortals, Sanxing, Hehe Twins and many others paying birthday tribute to a male deity seated on a sedan chair, the reverse with courtly figures, the interior with a central foliated medallion further decorated with Sanxing enclosed by a band of dragons underneath a figural band
Provenance: From the contents of Lowood House, Melrose, Scotland.
Sitting by the banks of the River Tweed near Melrose, Lowood has been the home of the Hamilton family since 1947 and the eclectic and fantastic collection offered on 6 October 2021 at Lyon and Turnbull was amassed over the past two centuries by two Scottish lowland families: the Crum Ewings and the Hamiltons.