Lot 202
Blue, White and Iron Red Bat Bowl, Guangxu Mark and Period (1875-1908)
Lot 202 Details
Blue, White and Iron Red Bat Bowl, Guangxu Mark and Period (1875-1908)
Thinly potted and patterned with scrolling clouds and flying bats along the exterior, a double blue line border decorates the interior along the everted rim
diameter 6.7" — 17.1 cm.
six-character Guangxu mark
Estimate $1,000-$1,500
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Provenance:
Chinese Porcelain from the Estate of Eleanor Moorhouse (Lots 181-202)
Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., Eleanor Moorhouse (1915-2005) was a geologist, with degrees from Smith College and Cornell University; a homemaker for her Canadian geologist husband, Walter Wilson Moorhouse, and their two children; a real estate agent; an editor of geological reports; a world traveler (more than 50 countries); a lover of art and architecture and an avid collector. Her first major foray into antiques involved Canadiana pressed glass. Following her husband’s death in 1969, she began to explore and collect Chinese blue and white porcelain, Japanese prints, Persian carpets, Arts and Crafts-period glass and lamps, and, in the last few years of her life, art glass by young Canadian artists, whom she enjoyed meeting and helping through her purchases. She acquired her Chinese porcelain collection in the early 1970s, purchasing many of the pieces at Frank Crane’s The Hundred Antiques shop on Toronto’s Church St.