THE PROPERTY OF A LADY
A RARE FAMILLE VERTE CORAL-GROUND 'BOYS' BOWL

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

Well painted on the exterior in iron-red and translucent enamels with four groups of four boys gathered playing and engaged in leisurely pursuits beside rocks and plantain on a continuous fenced garden terrace, all reserved on an even tomato-red ground, the rail posts and surrounding trees and vegetation picked out in gilt, the interior and base glazed white (glaze line to base)
8 1/4 in. (21 cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

Previously sold in these Rooms, 23 March 1993, lot 769.

Jiaqing-marked bowls of this pattern are recorded, as are rarer Kangxi versions. For examples of the later bowls see the O.C.S. Exhibition of Ch'ing Polychrome Porcelain, 1977, Catalogue, no. 100, subsequently sold in our London Rooms, 13 December 1982, lot 528; one included in the Hong Kong Museum of Art Exhibition, The Wonders of the Potter's Palette, 1986, Catalogue, no. 93; and another, illustrated by Avitable, From the Dragon's Treasure, Chinese Porcelain from the 19th and 20th Centuries in the Weishaupt Collection, p. 37, fig. 32.

(US$20,000-24,000)

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