A FINE AND RARE PAIR OF FAMILLE VERTE BOWLS

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A FINE AND RARE PAIR OF FAMILLE VERTE BOWLS
ENCIRCLED YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARKS AND OF THE PERIOD

The finely and thinly potted bowls with flaring sides and stepped everted rims, each delicately painted with butterflies among lush budding crab-apple branches guoqinaghua spilling over the sides into the interior--4 3/4in. (9.6cm.) diam. (2)

Provenance

H. M. Knight

Exhibited

O.C.S., The Arts of the Ch'ing Dynasty, London, 1964, Catalogue, no. 184

Lot Essay

This design is a continuation of the so-called 'birthday' series, associated with wares bearing patterns reputedly made for the Kangxi Emperor's sixtieth birthday. Cf. a bowl bearing a Kangxi six-character mark included in the Min Chiu Society Thirtieth Anniversary Exhibition, Selected Treasures of Chinese Art, Catalogue, no. 156; and a dish in the Percival David Foundation illustrated by S. Jenyns, Later Chinese Porcelain, pl. XXIX, and pl. XCII, no. 1

Previously sold in these Rooms, 19 January 1988, lot 336

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