Lot Essay
Previously sold in these Rooms, 5 November 1997, lot 965.
Three bowls of this rare shape and colour are published. One was included in the Min Chiu Society Exhibition of Monochrome Ceramics, Hong Kong, 1977, Catalogue, no. 55; another is illustrated by Ayers in the Baur Foundation, Catalogue, Vol. III, no. A 479; and the third in the Metropolitan Museum of Art is illustrated by Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, 1989, no. 257.
Compare also a pair of cups of the same shape but covered in rose-pink enamel, together with a pair covered in iron-red enamel, illustrated in The Tsui Museum of Art, Chinese Ceramics, Vol. IV, Hong Kong, 1991, nos. 25 and 26 respectively. Cf. a Yongzheng-marked bowl of this shape and size but covered in a mint-green enamel, sold in these Rooms, 1 October 1991, lot 796.
(US$58,000-77,000)
Three bowls of this rare shape and colour are published. One was included in the Min Chiu Society Exhibition of Monochrome Ceramics, Hong Kong, 1977, Catalogue, no. 55; another is illustrated by Ayers in the Baur Foundation, Catalogue, Vol. III, no. A 479; and the third in the Metropolitan Museum of Art is illustrated by Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, 1989, no. 257.
Compare also a pair of cups of the same shape but covered in rose-pink enamel, together with a pair covered in iron-red enamel, illustrated in The Tsui Museum of Art, Chinese Ceramics, Vol. IV, Hong Kong, 1991, nos. 25 and 26 respectively. Cf. a Yongzheng-marked bowl of this shape and size but covered in a mint-green enamel, sold in these Rooms, 1 October 1991, lot 796.
(US$58,000-77,000)