A PAIR OF RARE PURPLE-GLAZED BOWLS

QING MONOCHROMES PROPERTY FROM A PENNSYLVANIA COLLECTION

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A PAIR OF RARE PURPLE-GLAZED BOWLS
KANGXI MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD

Very finely potted, each bowl with rounded sides rising to an everted rim, covered inside and out with a superb deep purple glaze deepening at the foot and continuing in areas onto the cylindrical foot, the glaze with a high lustre and almost glass-like quality, the base glazed white and with a fine characteristic crackle, cracks--5 in. (12.8cm.) diam. (2)

Lot Essay

A similar bowl in the Brian S. McElney Collection was included in the exhibition, Porcelain of the High Qing, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Vancouver, B.C., 1983 and illustrated by Till and Swart in the Catalogue, no. 52. Compare, also, a pair of similar bowls sold Christie's, Hong Kong, January 16/17, 1989, lot 795

Referring to a purple-glazed bowl of different shape with Kangxi mark in the Baur Collection, John Ayers states, "The occurence of the K'ang Hsi reign mark on finely-made bowls and dishes having this rich purple glaze points to the likelihood of their having been made for Court use," Catalogue, vol. III, no. A 474