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A pair of Chinese export coral ground bowls
rising from a short foot to a slightly flaring rim, decorated to the exterior with a continuous scroll of peony and lotus dividing hibiscus joined by entwined foliage, the interior plain - 5in. (13cm) diam, underglaze blue Qianlong seal marks and of the period, (one with rim frits.)
See Illustration.
A similar bowl from the Simon Kwan Collection, exhibited at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1983, is illustrated in Imperial Porcelain of Late Qing, Catalogue, no 69; another from the Wei-shaupt Collection is illustrated by G.Avitable, From the Dragon's Treasure, Catalogue, no. 75; an example in the Metropolitan Museum of Art is illustrated by S. Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Art, p.282; and for a further bowl in the Percival David Foundation, see Catalogue, Section 5, no.B709. (2)
rising from a short foot to a slightly flaring rim, decorated to the exterior with a continuous scroll of peony and lotus dividing hibiscus joined by entwined foliage, the interior plain - 5in. (13cm) diam, underglaze blue Qianlong seal marks and of the period, (one with rim frits.)
See Illustration.
A similar bowl from the Simon Kwan Collection, exhibited at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1983, is illustrated in Imperial Porcelain of Late Qing, Catalogue, no 69; another from the Wei-shaupt Collection is illustrated by G.Avitable, From the Dragon's Treasure, Catalogue, no. 75; an example in the Metropolitan Museum of Art is illustrated by S. Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Art, p.282; and for a further bowl in the Percival David Foundation, see Catalogue, Section 5, no.B709. (2)