20th century Ceramics and a Reference Library from a Welsh Private Collection (Lots 140-151)






An associated pair of eggshell bowls


Cyclically dated xinyou year (AD1981), youxiacai (Liling Qun li) seal mark, one signed Zhang Zhen, the other signed LiEach enamelled on the thin, rounded sides with birds perched on flowering tree branches, the reverse with short poetic inscriptions, box. Each: 13.5cm (5 3/8in) diam. (3).
|ProvenanceLi Yuemei, Capital Gallery, Hong KongDominic Jellinek, 1999Bonhams New Bond Street, The Anthony Evans Collection of Later Chinese Porcelain, 10 November 2011, lot 613. (receipt)The artist Li has not been clearly identified as an individual, but the owner has suggested that he might be the same as the Hunan birds and flowers painter Li Kaiyun (b.1920).