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拍品專文
Previously sold Sotheby's London, 12 June 1990, lot 322.
Several examples of this elegant design in different versions have been recorded. An identical pair was sold in these Rooms, 3 November 1998, lot 961, and was also exhibited in Art Treasures from Shanghai and Hong Kong, University Museum and Art Gallery, Hong Kong, 9 November 1996 - 25 January 1997, Catalogue, nos. 56 & 57, while one of the pair was included in Joined Colors, Decoration and Meaning in Chinese Porcelain, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C., Catalogue no. 42. A single cup of closely related pattern, but with flared rather than rounded sides, is illustrated in the Catalogue, Qing Enamelled Wares in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, no. 821, where the author also compares it to no. 878 (unillustrated), which has more rounded sides. The interiors of the David bowls have fruit, seeds and petals, rather than flower heads of the Chang bowl.
These bowls show very clearly how quickly the painters at the official kilns mastered and took advantage of the new opportunities afforded by the newly-developed opaque white enamel to provide pastel colours, to allow shading of individual petals and to enable the ceramic decorator to paint white or pink-tinged flowers of exquisite delicacy.
(US$150,000-190,000)
Several examples of this elegant design in different versions have been recorded. An identical pair was sold in these Rooms, 3 November 1998, lot 961, and was also exhibited in Art Treasures from Shanghai and Hong Kong, University Museum and Art Gallery, Hong Kong, 9 November 1996 - 25 January 1997, Catalogue, nos. 56 & 57, while one of the pair was included in Joined Colors, Decoration and Meaning in Chinese Porcelain, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C., Catalogue no. 42. A single cup of closely related pattern, but with flared rather than rounded sides, is illustrated in the Catalogue, Qing Enamelled Wares in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, no. 821, where the author also compares it to no. 878 (unillustrated), which has more rounded sides. The interiors of the David bowls have fruit, seeds and petals, rather than flower heads of the Chang bowl.
These bowls show very clearly how quickly the painters at the official kilns mastered and took advantage of the new opportunities afforded by the newly-developed opaque white enamel to provide pastel colours, to allow shading of individual petals and to enable the ceramic decorator to paint white or pink-tinged flowers of exquisite delicacy.
(US$150,000-190,000)