PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE LATE PAUL AND HELEN BERNAT
TWO GREEN-GLAZED INCISED 'DRAGON' BOWLS
Details
TWO GREEN-GLAZED INCISED 'DRAGON' BOWLS
ENCIRCLED YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARKS AND OF THE PERIOD
Each with deep, rounded sides rising to a slightly everted rim, finely incised on the exterior with two dragons racing amidst undulating tendrils of lotus scroll beneath an apple-green glaze, on one bowl the dragons are in pursuit of flaming pearls above a border of ruyi heads (hair cracks)--5 3/4 and 5 7/8in. (14.4 and 14.9cm.) diam. (2)
ENCIRCLED YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARKS AND OF THE PERIOD
Each with deep, rounded sides rising to a slightly everted rim, finely incised on the exterior with two dragons racing amidst undulating tendrils of lotus scroll beneath an apple-green glaze, on one bowl the dragons are in pursuit of flaming pearls above a border of ruyi heads (hair cracks)--5 3/4 and 5 7/8in. (14.4 and 14.9cm.) diam. (2)
Provenance
Mathias Komor
Literature
The bowl with the inclusion of flaming pearls and the ruyi-head border in the design: J. Ayers and M. Sato, Sekai Toji Zenshu, vol. 15, Japan, 1983, no. 286, p. 202
Exhibited
The bowl with the inclusion of flaming pearls and the ruyi-head border in the design : London, Victoria and Albert Museum, The Ceramic Art of China, Oriental Ceramic Society Anniversary Exhibition, June-July 1971, no. 247, pl. 61