Lot 139
PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE YELLOW-GROUND 'MEDALLION' BOWLS
GUANGXU MARK AND OF THE PERIOD
Auction: 7 November 2018 at 16:00 GMT
Description
each painted in black outline and pale famille rose enamels with four medallions enclosing an arrangement of objects of the Hundred Antiques, reserved on a yellow-enamelled ground with fruiting and flowering gourd vines below a keyfret band encircling the mouth, the pattern repeated on the interior, the base with a six-character iron-red Guangxu reign mark (2)
Dimensions
13.5cm diam
Footnote
Provenance:
From the collection of Surgeon Rear Admiral Norman Meiklejohn, DSO. (1879-1961); thence by direct family descent.
Norman Meiklejohn joined the Royal Navy in November 1903 and retired in 1934. According to military records, he was given a Distinguished Service Order in June 1919, when he was a Senior Medical Officer on HMS Caledon. This ship was based in the Baltic, where there was naval conflict as a result of the Bolshevik Revolution.
From 1904 to 1911, Meiklejohn was a surgeon on HMS Monmouth, a light cruiser serving on the China Station. He was based for much of the time at the Port of Weihaiwei, which was a leased territory of the United Kingdom from 1898 until 1930. It is likely Meiklejohn acquired the pieces included in this sale during his service there.