VARIOUS PROPERTIES
A FINE MING-STYLE COPPER-RED-DECORATED 'THREE FISH' BOWL

細節
A FINE MING-STYLE COPPER-RED-DECORATED 'THREE FISH' BOWL
ENCIRCLED YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

With rounded sides rising to a gently everted rim, the exterior decorated with three evenly spaced carps in underglaze-red
7 1/2 in. (19 cm.) diam., box

拍品專文

The design is taken from early 15th century prototypes, such as the small rounded bowl with a Xuande mark, included in the Exhibition of Imperial Porcelain of the Yongle and Xuande Periods Excavated from the Site of the Ming Imperial Factory at Jingdezhen, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1989, Catalogue, no. 75. The motif, however, is more often found on stembowls.

Comparable Yongzheng bowls are published, a slightly larger version illustrated in Sekai Toji Zenshu, vol. 15, pl. 39; another by Beurdeley and Raindre, Qing Porcelain, pl. 135; one of the same size sold in these Rooms, 20 March 1990, lot 575; and a smaller bowl in the Nanjing Museum, included in the exhibition Qing Imperial Porcelain of the Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong Reigns, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1995, Catalogue, no. 49.

(US$19,000-25,000)