A JUN-TYPE HEXAGONAL BULB BOWL

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A JUN-TYPE HEXAGONAL BULB BOWL
YONGZHENG IMPRESSED SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

The lobed sides rising from the neatly shaped feet to an everted, lobed rim, the glaze an attractive mottled raspberry color thinning to blue-gray at the rim and a mushroom tone along the six ribs on the interior, the base with two drainage holes and covered with a brownish wash
10½in. (26.5cm.) wide

Provenance

Stephen Junkunc III

Lot Essay

Although not of identical shape, this bulb bowl appears to be related to jun-type vessels bearing similar Yongzheng seal marks and based on Song dynasty prototypes. See the lobed hexagonal flower pot stand illustrated by Liu Liang-yu, Ch'ing Official and Popular Wares, A Survey of Chinese Ceramics, vol. 5, Taiwan, 1991, p. 126 (right); and another in the Baur Collection, illustrated by John Ayers in the Catalogue, vol. III, Geneva, 1972, no. A 355