A LEMON-YELLOW-GLAZED BOWL

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A LEMON-YELLOW-GLAZED BOWL
KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD

The deep, rounded sides rising from a slightly tapering foot to the everted rim, covered inside and out with a yellow glaze of pale lemon tone
7 3/8in. (18.7cm.) diam., box

Lot Essay

For two other Kangxi-marked yellow-glazed bowls of this shape and approximate large size see the example included in The Special Exhibition of K'ang-hsi, Yung-cheng and Ch'ien-lung Porcelain Ware from the Ch'ing Dynasty in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1986, Catalogue, p. 56, no. 16 and the bowl illustrated by Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. II, London, 1994, p. 231, no. 894. The companion bowl to this latter example is in the Percival David Foundation, illustrated by Margaret Medley, Illustrated Catalogue of Ming and Ch'ing Monochrome in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, London, 1973, no. A 520