AN IMPERIAL FAMILLE VERTE CORAL-GROUND BOWL

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AN IMPERIAL FAMILLE VERTE CORAL-GROUND BOWL
KANGXI YUZHI MARK WITHIN A DOUBLE SQUARE AND OF THE PERIOD

With rounded sides rising to a flared rim supported on a slightly splayed foot, painted to the exterior with exotic flowers including peony, day lilies, lotus, camellia and daisies in lustrous yellow, green, aubergine, blue and white enamels with iron-red and black outlines reserved on a rich coral-red ground, the interior and base white (tiny enamel flakes)--4 1/4in. (11.8cm.) diam., box

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Two bowls of this type are in the Shanghai Museum, and both have been published; one in Chugoku Toji Zenshu, vol. 21, pl. 76, the other from an exhibition in Japan in Ceramics Throughout China's History from the Shanghai Museum, Catalogue, 1984, no. 92. See also the Bernat example, illustrated by H. Moss, By Imperial Command, pl. 74; and the example in J. Ayers, The Baur Collection, vol. IV, nos. A612 & A613.

A pair of these bowls are illustrated in The S.C. Ko Tianminlou Collection, Catalogue, Part I, vol. 1, no. 89; another pair from the Wah Kwong and T.Y. Chao collections sold in these Rooms, 20 March 1990, lot 566

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