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Lot Essay
The application of thin, lace-like gilding on a porcelain surface is sometimes known as the kinrande technique, a Japanese term which originally means textile with gold brocade. Kinrande porcelains were popular during the Jiajing period, featuring gilt decorations commonly applied on green, white, yellow, iron-red or dark-blue grounds. However, the combination of kinrande and anhua decorations as seen on the current bowl is extremely rare, and appears to be a novel design by the Imperial kilns during the Jiajing period.
Two kinrande bowls decorated with lotus scrolls on green-enamelled grounds are in the British Museum, illustrated by J. Harrison-Hall, Ming Ceramics in the British Museum, London, 2001, pls. 9:65 and 66. Both bowls lack the anhua decorations found on the present lot, and are inscribed on the bases with the mark changing fugue ‘long life, riches and honour’, unlike the Jiajing reign mark inscribed on the present lot.
Compare also to a Jiajing-marked bowl decorated with kinrande lotus scrolls on a white ground, sold at Christie’s London, 18 June 2002, lot 14; and a Jiajing-marked bowl with kinrande floral scrolls on a yellow ground, sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 30 May 2006, lot 1417.
Two kinrande bowls decorated with lotus scrolls on green-enamelled grounds are in the British Museum, illustrated by J. Harrison-Hall, Ming Ceramics in the British Museum, London, 2001, pls. 9:65 and 66. Both bowls lack the anhua decorations found on the present lot, and are inscribed on the bases with the mark changing fugue ‘long life, riches and honour’, unlike the Jiajing reign mark inscribed on the present lot.
Compare also to a Jiajing-marked bowl decorated with kinrande lotus scrolls on a white ground, sold at Christie’s London, 18 June 2002, lot 14; and a Jiajing-marked bowl with kinrande floral scrolls on a yellow ground, sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 30 May 2006, lot 1417.