Lot Essay
An identical bowl of this pattern is illustrated in Chinese Ceramics in the Idemitsu Collection, no. 81.
Cf. two variations related to this type of moulded pattern, the first with peony rather than flowering lotus from the Liaoning Museum, illustrated by Zhongguo Taoci Quanji, vol. 9, Dingyao, no. 81; the other decorated with further fish swimming among lotus in the cavetto is the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, illustrated by He Li, Chinese Ceramics: A New Comprehensive Survey, p. 150, no. 229.
(US$35,000-40,000)
Cf. two variations related to this type of moulded pattern, the first with peony rather than flowering lotus from the Liaoning Museum, illustrated by Zhongguo Taoci Quanji, vol. 9, Dingyao, no. 81; the other decorated with further fish swimming among lotus in the cavetto is the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, illustrated by He Li, Chinese Ceramics: A New Comprehensive Survey, p. 150, no. 229.
(US$35,000-40,000)