A PAIR OF REVERSE-DECORATED CORAL-GROUND BOWLS

PROPERTY FROM A MIDWESTERN COLLECTION

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A PAIR OF REVERSE-DECORATED CORAL-GROUND BOWLS
QIANLONG SEAL MARKS IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD

Each with deep rounded sides rising to a slightly flared rim, decorated on the exterior with a rich pattern of conjoined foliate arabesques enclosing peony blossoms in the upper register and lotus blossoms in the lower, all detailed in fine iron-red line and reserved in white on a dark coral ground, interior glazed white
5in. (12.7cm.) diam. (2)

Lot Essay

A pair of Qianlong-marked bowls of this pattern was included in the exhibition, Qing Mark and Period Monochrome and Two-Coloured Wares, S Marchant & Son, London, June 7--26, 1992, Catalogue, p. 61, no. 48. Another in the Percival David Foundation is illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol. 6, Tokyo, 1982, col. pl. 94; and three in the Roemer Museum, Hildesheim, are illustrated by Ulrich Wiesner, Chinesisches Porzellan in the Ohlmer Collection, Mainz am Rhein, 1981, p. 192, nos. 130-132