A FINE AND RARE CONICAL 'SWALLOW' BOWL AND COVER

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A FINE AND RARE CONICAL 'SWALLOW' BOWL AND COVER
ENCIRCLED YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

The deep bowl and rounded cover each similarly decorated with a green and blue swallow perched on a thick flowering prunus branch entwined with branches of flowering peony above a butterfly, the reverse with a descending swallow, all in tones of green, aubergine, and iron-red, the rims encircled by double-line borders
7 3/4 in. (19.5 cm.) diam., box

Literature

The Tsui Museum of Art, 1991, pl. 113.
The Tsui Museum of Art, Chinese Ceramics, vol. IV, pl. 128.

Exhibited

Splendour of the Qing Dynasty, Joint exhibition by the Urban Council, and the Min Chiu Society, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1995/1996, Catalogue, pl. 178.

Lot Essay

Another Yongzheng bowl and cover of this pattern in the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, is illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, Kodansha Series, vol. 8, 1982, col. pl. 65; other bowls in public collections include the British Museum example, illustrated by Hobson, The Later Ceramic Wares of China, pl. LV, fig. 1; and the Shanghai Museum example illustrated in Chugoku Toji Zenshu, vol. 21, pl. 104.

(US$50,000-80,000)

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