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Lot Essay
Yongzheng bowls with this type of decoration are seen with two different bands around the rim. Some have the stylised flower heads and quatrefoil panels seen on the current bowls, while others have extended formal clouds. Those with the stylised flowers seem to be the rarer of the two types. A pair of bowls of the same type as the current pair was sold in Hong Kong in 1995, and a single bowl of this type was sold in these rooms in December 1996, lot 33.
A similar bowl in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum provides the dust cover illustration for R. Kerr's Chinese Ceramics, Porcelain of the Qing Dynasty 1644-1911, London, 1986. A pair of such bowls in the Tianminlou collection is illustrated in Special Inaugural Exhibition of Ming and Qing Polychrome Wares from the Collection of the Tianminlou Foundation, Shanghai, Christie's, 1994, no. 8. There are also examples in the Koger collection, illustrated by J. Ayers in Chinese Ceramics, The Koger Collection, London, 1985, no. 121; and in the Baur Collection, illustrated by J. Ayers, Baur Collection Geneva - Chinese Ceramics, vol. IV, nos. A540-541. Similarly decorated bowls of approximately the same size and also bearing a Yongzheng mark formerly in the Constantinidi Collection has been published by S. Jenyns in Later Chinese Porcelain, London, Faber & Faber, 1951, plate LXIX no. 1.
A similar bowl in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum provides the dust cover illustration for R. Kerr's Chinese Ceramics, Porcelain of the Qing Dynasty 1644-1911, London, 1986. A pair of such bowls in the Tianminlou collection is illustrated in Special Inaugural Exhibition of Ming and Qing Polychrome Wares from the Collection of the Tianminlou Foundation, Shanghai, Christie's, 1994, no. 8. There are also examples in the Koger collection, illustrated by J. Ayers in Chinese Ceramics, The Koger Collection, London, 1985, no. 121; and in the Baur Collection, illustrated by J. Ayers, Baur Collection Geneva - Chinese Ceramics, vol. IV, nos. A540-541. Similarly decorated bowls of approximately the same size and also bearing a Yongzheng mark formerly in the Constantinidi Collection has been published by S. Jenyns in Later Chinese Porcelain, London, Faber & Faber, 1951, plate LXIX no. 1.