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Lot Essay
Yongzheng bowls with this type of decoration are seen with two different bands around the rim. Some have floral borders with demi-florettes, as seen on the present lot, while others have quatrefoil panels.
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; another is illustrated by J. Ayers, Chinese Ceramics in the Baur Collection, Geneva, 1999, vol. 2, pl. 203. Similar bowls with different border at the mouth rims are also published: one in the collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Miscellaneous Enamelled Procelains, The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Shanghai, 2009, pl. 100; one in the Victoria and Albert Museum, illustrated by R. Kerr, Chinese Ceramics, Porcelain of the Qing Dynasty 1644-1911, London, 1986, front cover; and a pair sold at Christie's London, 21 June 2001, lot 102.
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; another is illustrated by J. Ayers, Chinese Ceramics in the Baur Collection, Geneva, 1999, vol. 2, pl. 203. Similar bowls with different border at the mouth rims are also published: one in the collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Miscellaneous Enamelled Procelains, The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Shanghai, 2009, pl. 100; one in the Victoria and Albert Museum, illustrated by R. Kerr, Chinese Ceramics, Porcelain of the Qing Dynasty 1644-1911, London, 1986, front cover; and a pair sold at Christie's London, 21 June 2001, lot 102.