A FINE LARGE CELADON-GLAZED MOULDED BOWL

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A FINE LARGE CELADON-GLAZED MOULDED BOWL
QIANLONG SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

With deep rounded sides and flaring rim, the exterior moulded in shallow relief with sprigs of lychee, pomegranate, peach and citrus between sprays of lotus, prunus, magnolia and peony, all under a fine bubble-suffused even pale sea-green celadon glaze
13 1/2 in. (34 cm.) diam., box

Literature

The Tsui Museum of Art, 1991, pl. 127.
The Tsui Museum of Art, Chinese Ceramics, vol. IV, pl. 36.

Lot Essay

A similar example is illustrated by du Boulay, Christie's Pictorial History of Chinese Ceramics, p. 219, col. pl. 2.

A comparable bowl but made in the Yongzheng period from the British Rail Pension Fund was sold in Hong Kong, 16 May 1989, lot 57. Another from the Koger Collection sold in New York, 27 November 1990, lot 32.

(US$26,000-32,000)

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