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Lot Essay
Such bowls, which four-character yuzhi marks were inscribed in underglaze-blue by the Jingdezhen kilns that made the porcelain, were painted in the Imperial Workshops in the Forbidden City.
An identical bowl is illustrated in Kangxi Porcelain Wares from the Shanghai Museum Collection, Shanghai 1998, p.140, fig.95-1 and 95-2. Another bowl from the Charles Russell and Paul Bernat Collections, now in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is illustrated by H. Moss, By Imperial Command, Hong Kong 1976, pl.74.
Other examples of this pattern include a pair of bowls from the T.Y. Chao Private and Family Trust Collection sold by Christie's Hong Kong, 30 May 2006, lot 1258 ; and a single bowl sold by Christie's Hong Kong, 1 November 2004, lot 888.
For further references see also the footnote of lot 903, The Imperial Sale, sold by Christie's Hong Kong, 26 April 2004.
A similar bowl was sold by Christie's Paris, 15 June 2005, lot 278.
An identical bowl is illustrated in Kangxi Porcelain Wares from the Shanghai Museum Collection, Shanghai 1998, p.140, fig.95-1 and 95-2. Another bowl from the Charles Russell and Paul Bernat Collections, now in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is illustrated by H. Moss, By Imperial Command, Hong Kong 1976, pl.74.
Other examples of this pattern include a pair of bowls from the T.Y. Chao Private and Family Trust Collection sold by Christie's Hong Kong, 30 May 2006, lot 1258 ; and a single bowl sold by Christie's Hong Kong, 1 November 2004, lot 888.
For further references see also the footnote of lot 903, The Imperial Sale, sold by Christie's Hong Kong, 26 April 2004.
A similar bowl was sold by Christie's Paris, 15 June 2005, lot 278.