THE PROPERTY OF A LADY
A PAIR OF INCISED GREEN-GLAZED DRAGON AND PHOENIX BOWLS

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A PAIR OF INCISED GREEN-GLAZED DRAGON AND PHOENIX BOWLS
YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARKS IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD

Each finely incised on the exterior with a striding five-clawed dragon and long-tailed phoenix amidst fire scrolls and cloud whorls, above a wave-pattern border encircling the base, all under lustrous, leaf-green glaze of even tone, the interior and base glazed white, one with short haircrack, the other with haircracks and restoration--6 3/8in. (16.2cm.) diam., stands (2)

Lot Essay

It is rather unusual to find this decoration on Yongzheng bowls with a green glaze. Similar decoration can readily be found on yellow-glazed bowls. For similar but smaller examples see Sotheby's, Hong Kong, The Paul and Helen Bernat Collection of Important Qing Imperial Porcelain and Works of Art, November 15, 1988, lot 71; another from the same collectionincluded in the O.C.S. Jubilee Exhibition of the Ceramic Art of China, London, 1971, catalogue no.247; and Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, London, 1994, p.227, pl. 886