A Chinese famille verte-decorated porcelain "Lotuses" dish 五彩荷花盘
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A Chinese famille verte-decorated porcelain "Lotuses" dish 五彩荷花盘 Kangxi period 清康熙
The center decorated with lotuses growing in a pond, with butterfly and insects, floral reserved border, underside with twin-fish mark in underglaze blue
(Dia: 10 3/4 in.)
PROVENANCE:
Captain and Mrs. Sergius N. Ferris Luboshez, sold Wechsler's, Washington, D.C. March 27, 1999, lot 30
Acquired from the above by the present owner
EXHIBITED:
University of Maryland Art Gallery, "Chinese Art from the Ferris Luboshez Collection", March 23 - April 30, 1972, p. 84, #155
NOTE:
Captain Sergius N. Ferris Luboshez (1896-1984), was a well-known collector of Chinese art. Born of American parents in England, he taught physics at the University of London, experimenting in the sonar detection of submarines. He also studied law in England, serving as a barrister-at-law, and later as a member of the New York Bar and that of the District of Columbia. Luboshez entered the United States Navy at the outbreak of World War II. After the war, he became general counsel to the Office of the Foreign Liquidation Commissioner of the U.S. Department of State for an area that included China and Japan, then was appointed central field commisssioner with headquarters in Shanghai. His Chinese art collection was primarily assembled during this time (1945-1949). He returned to the United States in 1949. His collection was sold shortly before his death at Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York ("Important Chinese Ceramics, Bronzes, and Works of Art: The Collection of Captain S.N. Ferris Luboshez, USN (Ret'd)," November 18, 1982).
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A Chinese famille verte-decorated porcelain "Lotuses" dish 五彩荷花盘
Estimate $1,000 - $1,500
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