A FINE AND RARE IMPERIAL FAMILLE ROSE CORAL-GROUND BOWL

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A FINE AND RARE IMPERIAL FAMILLE ROSE CORAL-GROUND BOWL
YONGZHENG FOUR-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN A DOUBLE SQUARE AND OF THE PERIOD
The rounded sides rising to a flaring rim, the exterior delicately enamelled with flowering chrysanthemum, daisies, peonies, lilies, prunus and poppies bourne on leafy sprigs in tones of blue, green, pink, yellow, black and white enamels, all on a coral-red ground 5 1/8 in. (13 cm.) diam., box

Literature

The Tsui Museum of Art, Chinese Ceramics, vol. IV, pl. 160.

Lot Essay

This group of yuzhi-style bowls illustrates the transition between the famille verte and famille rose palettes and provide illuminating stylistic differences.

A nearly identical bowl in the Cleveland Museum of Art, is illustrated by Moss, By Imperial Command, col. pl. 81. The difference between that example and the famille verte bowl with a yuzhi mark illustrated ibid., p. 75, is very marked in the treatment of the foliage which has many more hues of green in the former as well as greater botanical details.

(US$130,000-200,000)

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