A FINE PAIR OF IMPERIAL CORAL-GROUND FAMILLE VERTE BOWLS YONGZHENG YUZHI MARKS WITHIN A DOUBLE SQUARE AND OF THE PERIOD

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A FINE PAIR OF IMPERIAL CORAL-GROUND FAMILLE VERTE BOWLS YONGZHENG YUZHI MARKS WITHIN A DOUBLE SQUARE AND OF THE PERIOD

Each small, shallow bowl with rounded sides delicately enamelled with with three detached peony sprays picked out in blue with iron-red centres and curled petals edged in yellow surrounded by arched green leaves with yellow veins issuing smaller yellow, aubergine and blue flowers, all reserved on an even coral-red ground--4 3/4in. (11.9cm.) diam., box (2)
Provenance
The Works of Art Collection of the British Rail Pension Fund, sold in Hong Kong, 16 May 1989, lot 72
Exhibited
The San Antonio Museum of Art, 1986-1988

Lot Essay

Hugh Moss illustrates two nearly identical famille verte bowls of this pattern in By Imperial Command, pl. 77 from the Maze Foundation and pl. 78 which he dates 1722 to circa 1725; a third bowl with additional famille rose enamels from Grandidier Bequest in the Musee Guimet, Paris is illustrated as pl. 79 dated 1722 to circa 1728. Other famille verte Yuzhi bowls of this rare pattern have been published, one in the National Palace Museum, Taibei in their special exhibition Imperial Enamel Ware of the Qing Dynasty, Catalogue, 1979, no. 35; another in the Shanghai Museum is included in Chugoku Toji Zenshu, vol 21, pl. 105; a pair is illustrated by A. du Boulay, Christie's Pictorial History of Chinese Ceramics, p. 240, fig. 4, sold in our London Rooms, 25 November 1974

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