Live Auction 5802Chinese
Lot 143

A LARGE YELLOW-GLAZED BOWL

KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

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GBP 3,680

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A LARGE YELLOW-GLAZED BOWL
kangxi six-character mark and of the period
Of unusually large size, the rounded sides rising to a slightly everted mouth lip, covered overall in a rich egg-yolk-yellow glaze pooling around the rim and foot, rim chip restored
14½in. (37cm.) diam.

Specialist note

Compare the similar bowl of this size in the National Palace Museum of Taiwan, Catalogue, Qing Dynasty Porcelain, pl.63; another exhibited, Qing Imperial Porcelain, Nanjing Museum, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1995, Catalogue, no.5; two similar bowls in the Percival David Foundation, Catalogue, section 6, no.A 552. A similar bowl was sold in these Rooms, 5 June 1995, lot 230. Compare also the slightly smaller bowl (12¼in., 31.4cm. diam.) illustrated by J. Ayers, The Baur Collection, vol.III, no.A 446; another of this smaller size was sold in these Rooms, 6 June 1988, lot 114.