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Lot Essay
The blue-enamelled hallmark, Cai Xiu Tang, is a dedication to the Hall of the Colourful and Beautiful, dated to the Qianlong period.
The elaborate enamel decoration on this bowl is only recorded on one other bowl previously in the Edward T. Chow Collection, illustrated by E. T. Chow and F. S. Drake, Kuan-Yao and Min-yao, A Study on Imperial Porcelain and People's Porcelain from K'ang-hsi to the end of the Ch'ing Dynasty, Archives of the Chinese Art Society of America, XIII, 1959, pl. VIII, fig. 2; and by M. Beurdeley and G. Raindre, Qing Porcelain, no. 146. The Chow example has a blue enamel Yongzheng four-character mark, and like the present bowl, is painted with an unusually bold use of the various enamels readily available to official kilns.
This attractive and complex 'millefleurs' design was used to decorate a small group of wares, including bowls, dishes and vases. Two dishes enamelled to the exterior in this pattern, but bearing different hallmarks are illustrated, one in the Percival David Foundation, Catalogue, section 2, no. 865; and another dish in the Shanghai Museum, illustrated in Chugoku Toji Zenshu, vol. 21, pl. 119.
(US$150,000-190,000)
The elaborate enamel decoration on this bowl is only recorded on one other bowl previously in the Edward T. Chow Collection, illustrated by E. T. Chow and F. S. Drake, Kuan-Yao and Min-yao, A Study on Imperial Porcelain and People's Porcelain from K'ang-hsi to the end of the Ch'ing Dynasty, Archives of the Chinese Art Society of America, XIII, 1959, pl. VIII, fig. 2; and by M. Beurdeley and G. Raindre, Qing Porcelain, no. 146. The Chow example has a blue enamel Yongzheng four-character mark, and like the present bowl, is painted with an unusually bold use of the various enamels readily available to official kilns.
This attractive and complex 'millefleurs' design was used to decorate a small group of wares, including bowls, dishes and vases. Two dishes enamelled to the exterior in this pattern, but bearing different hallmarks are illustrated, one in the Percival David Foundation, Catalogue, section 2, no. 865; and another dish in the Shanghai Museum, illustrated in Chugoku Toji Zenshu, vol. 21, pl. 119.
(US$150,000-190,000)