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A CHINESE IMARI AND POLYCHROME ENAMEL PUNCHBOWL
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A CHINESE IMARI AND POLYCHROME ENAMEL PUNCHBOWL

18TH CENTURY

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A CHINESE IMARI AND POLYCHROME ENAMEL PUNCHBOWL
18TH CENTURY
Boldly decorated in the Japanese style in underglaze blue, iron-red, shades of green and yellow enamel and gilt with meandering peony branches around five carp swimming amongst shells and water-weed at the centre of the interior, the exterior with similar peony over iron-red hatched pattern and reserved with four petal-shaped cartouches enclosing chrysanthemum sprays, the base with an underglaze blue lingzhi mark within a double circle
14½ in. (37 cm.) diam.
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Lot Essay

This bowl closely copies Japanese Imari exprt wares of circa 1680. It is quite likely that it was ordered in China by the Dutch shortly after they ceased trading with Japan; they may well have taken a Japanese version to China to be copied.

A very similar bowl is in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, and is illustrated by C. Jörg, Chinese Ceramics in the Colllection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 1997, no.225, p.202; instead of the lingzhi mark on the base as in the present lot, the Rijksmuseum example has a very unusual underglaze blue twin fish mark on the base.

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