A PAIR OF YELLOW AND GREEN-GLAZED 'BOYS' BOWLS
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A PAIR OF YELLOW AND GREEN-GLAZED 'BOYS' BOWLS

YONGZHENG UNDERGLAZE-BLUE SIX-CHARACTER MARKS WITHIN DOUBLE-CIRCLES AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)

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A PAIR OF YELLOW AND GREEN-GLAZED 'BOYS' BOWLS
YONGZHENG UNDERGLAZE-BLUE SIX-CHARACTER MARKS WITHIN DOUBLE-CIRCLES AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)
The pair of bowls are well potted with deep rounded sides rising to a flaring rim, supported on a short tapering foot. The exterior of each bowl is finely incised with a scene depicting boys playing musical instruments forming a procession on a terraced garden beneath pine trees, highlighted in a green glaze reserved against a yellow ground.
6¼ in. (15.8 cm.) (2)
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Lot Essay

A Yongzheng bowl of this design is illustrated in Chinese Porcelain, The S. C. Ko Tianminlou Collection, Hong Kong, 1987, pl. 103; one illustrated by J. Ayers, Chinese Ceramics, The Koger Collection, London and New York, 1985, pl. 121; one from the Hall Family Collection was sold by Sotheby's Hong Kong, 2 May 2000, lot 535; and another is illustrated by J. Ayers, Chinese Ceramics in the Baur Collection, Geneva, 1999, vol. 2, pl. 203. Similar bowls with the different border at the mouth rim are also published: one in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, illustrated by R. Kerr, Chinese Ceramics, Porcelain of the Qing Dynasty 1644-1911, London, 1986, front cover; and a bowl sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 1 December 2010, lot 3200.

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