A FINE FAMILLE VERTE BOWL

PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE LATE PAUL AND HELEN BERNAT

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A FINE FAMILLE VERTE BOWL
ENCIRCLED CHENGHUA SIX-CHARACTER MARK, KANGXI

The shallow, rounded sides finely enamelled on the exterior with a procession of Daoist Fairies, one riding in a cart drawn by a mythical beast, followed by other fairies and a deer in a landscape interspersed with rocks and clumps of lingzhi fungus, with the wufu painted in iron-red in flight above, the foot encircled by a narrow band of iron-red scrolls, all within underglaze-blue double-line borders--5 5/8in. (14.3cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

Cf. a pair of very similar bowls of the same size included in the exhibition, The Severance and Greta Millikin Collection, The Cleveland Museum of Art, July-September 1990, Catalogue, no. 69, pl. 13. Compare also the bowls of the same shape but larger size (22.2 and 22.5cm.), painted in the same style with different processions of Daoist Fairies, in the Percival David Foundation, illustrated in the Catalogue, Section 2, nos. 859 and 863

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