Live Auction 22642Important Chinese Art Including the Collection of Dorothy Tapper Goldman
A FINELY DECORATED FAMILLE VERTE 'BIRDS AND LOTUS POND' BOWL
Lot 946Property from the Alita Davis Weaver Reed Collection

A FINELY DECORATED FAMILLE VERTE 'BIRDS AND LOTUS POND' BOWL

KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)

Closed22 March 2024

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USD 138,600

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A FINELY DECORATED FAMILLE VERTE 'BIRDS AND LOTUS POND' BOWL
KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)
The base is inscribed with an apocryphal Chenghua mark.
5 5/8 in. (14.2 cm.) diam.

Samuel Craft Davis (1871-1940) Collection, St. Louis, Missouri.
William Bigler (1908-1979) and Alita Davis (1905-1988) Weaver Collection, Greenwich, Connecticut.
Nathaniel Pryor (1933-2018) and Alita Davis Weaver (1941-2023) Reed Collection, Jupiter Island, Florida, and thence by descent within the family.

Specialist note

Compare the very similar Chenghua-marked bowl illustrated in Kangxi Porcelain Wares from the Shanghai Museum Collection, Hong Kong, 1998, pp. 150-1, no. 102.