18TH CENTURY

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An Unusual Celadon-Glazed Chrysanthemum Bowl
18th century
The deeply rounded sides carved as petals rising to a scalloped rim, covered inside and out with a bubble-suffused glaze of bluish sea-green tone thinning on the rim and ribs on the interior and ending in a scalloped edge on the foot rim, base glazed white
5.13/16in. (14.7cm.) diam.

Provenance

Christie's, Hong Kong, 26/27 September 1989, lot 722.

Lot Essay

Although there are a number of monochrome-glazed, circular, fluted dishes modelled after the chrysanthemum flower with Yongzheng and Qianlong marks, bowls in the shape of this example appear to be rare. A larger bowl of the same flower form, bearing a Yongzheng mark, was sold Sotheby's, Hong Kong, 17 May 1988, lot 72.

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