A RARE LARGE FAMILLE VERTE CORAL-GROUND BOWL

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A RARE LARGE FAMILLE VERTE CORAL-GROUND BOWL
JIAQING SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

With deep rounded sides, the exterior enamelled with the 'Sixteen Boys' playing various games on a terrace with plantain, reserved on a gilt-decorated coral ground (rim flaw)
8 1/4 in. (21 cm.) diam., box

Provenance

Weishaupt Collection, no. 843.

Literature

Avitabile, From the Dragon's Treasure, Chinese Porcelain from the 19th and 20th Century, no. 32.

Lot Essay

Jiaqing period bowls of this pattern bearing reign marks, based on Kangxi prototypes, have been included in the Hong Kong O.C.S. Exhibition of Ch'ing Polychrome Porcelain, 1977, Catalogue, no. 100; and in the Hong Kong Museum of Art exhibition, The Wonders of the Potter's Palette, 1986, Catalogue, no. 93.

For a Kangxi-marked example of this pattern see The Tsui Museum of Art, Chinese Ceramics, vol. IV, fig. 104.

(US$40,000-50,000)

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