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Lot Essay
The design on these bowls is based on a Kangxi prototype such as the smaller bowl included in the National Palace Museum, Special Exhibition of K'ang-hsi, Yung-cheng and Ch'ien-lung Porcelain, Taipei, 1986, Catalogue, no. 7; sold at Christie's New York, 21 September 1995, lot 220.
A pair of Qianlong-marked bowls similar to the present examples in the Edward T. Chow Collection is illustrated by Chow and Drake, 'Kuan-Yao and Min-Yao', Archives of the Chinese Art Society of America, XIII, 1959, pl. XVIII, fig. 3. An example from the Jingguantang Collection was sold at Christie's New York, 18 September 1997, lot 166. Another similar bowl was sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 28 November 2006, lot 1553.
A pair of Qianlong-marked bowls similar to the present examples in the Edward T. Chow Collection is illustrated by Chow and Drake, 'Kuan-Yao and Min-Yao', Archives of the Chinese Art Society of America, XIII, 1959, pl. XVIII, fig. 3. An example from the Jingguantang Collection was sold at Christie's New York, 18 September 1997, lot 166. Another similar bowl was sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 28 November 2006, lot 1553.