A FINE AND RARE PAIR OF IMPERIAL FAMILLE VERTE CORAL-GROUND BOWLS

IMPERIAL PORCELAIN

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A FINE AND RARE PAIR OF IMPERIAL FAMILLE VERTE CORAL-GROUND BOWLS
KANGXI YUZHI MARKS WITHIN DOUBLE-SQUARES AND OF THE PERIOD

Each with rounded sides rising to a flaring rim, enamelled to the exterior with exotic flowers including peony, lotus and lily in yellow, green, aubergine, blue and white enamels with iron-red and black outlines reserved on a coral-red ground, the enamels unusually lustrous and the ground colour very even in tone, all resting on a slightly spreading foot
4 1/4 in. (10.7 cm.) diam., box, wood stands (2)

Provenance

T.Y. Chao Private and Family Trust, sold in Hong Kong, 19 May 1987, lot 303.
Sold in these Rooms, 20 March 1990, lot 566.

Exhibited

Exhibition of Ch'ing Porcelain from the Wah Kwong Collection, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1973, Catalogue, no. 108.
Exhibition of Ming and Ch'ing Porcelain from the T.Y. Chao Family Foundation, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1978, Catalogue, no. 71.

Lot Essay

For another rare pair of these splendid Imperial bowls, see Chinese Porcelain: The S.C. Ko Tianminlou Collection, vol. 1, no. 89.

Two other bowls of this type from the Shanghai Museum are illustrated in Chugoku Toji Zenshu, vol. 21, pl. 76 and in Ceramics Throughout China's History from the Shanghai Museum, Catalogue, 1984, no. 92. See also the Bernat example, illustrated by H. Moss, By Imperial Command, pl. 74.

(US$230,000-250,000)

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