Lot 231
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A RARE LARGE FAMILLE VERTE BLACK-GROUND BOWL, with rounded sides and flaring rim, enamelled with flower-head-shaped panels containing rocks, flowering shrubs and birds, on a ground of chrysanthemum, flowering prunus and tree-peony below a cloud-collar band containing half-flower-heads, the rim with a prunus-blossom band, the interior rim with a similar band of birds, rocks and flowering shrubs, a central medallion within double-blue bands with a hare, tiger, peacock, and hawk amongst craggy rocks and flowering tree-peony (rim chips restored),

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A RARE LARGE FAMILLE VERTE BLACK-GROUND BOWL, with rounded sides and flaring rim, enamelled with flower-head-shaped panels containing rocks, flowering shrubs and birds, on a ground of chrysanthemum, flowering prunus and tree-peony below a cloud-collar band containing half-flower-heads, the rim with a prunus-blossom band, the interior rim with a similar band of birds, rocks and flowering shrubs, a central medallion within double-blue bands with a hare, tiger, peacock, and hawk amongst craggy rocks and flowering tree-peony (rim chips restored),

17th Century
34.8cm. diam.
Provenance
Sidney Ernest Kennedy
H. Johnstone
Ira and Nancy Koger
Exhibited
International Exhibition of Chinese Art, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1935-1936, Catalogue, no.1725
John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida, May 1985
Jacksonville Art Museum, Florida, February 1987

Lot Essay

This bowl is illustrated by J. Ayers, Chinese Ceramics, The Koger Collection, pl.115. A similar bowl in the Ionides Collection was sold in London, 14 July 1964, lot 358

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