A FINE PAIR OF GLAZED CUT-WORK BOWLS

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A FINE PAIR OF GLAZED CUT-WORK BOWLS
QIANLONG SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD

Thinly potted, the flared, rounded sides with a cut-out frieze of lotus scroll enclosing six large blossoms, all covered in a translucent glaze which fills in the cut-out design to create a plique-a-jour effect
5¼in. (13.3cm.) diam., boxes (2)

Provenance

Yamanaka & Co., May, 1937
Stephen Junkunc, III

Lot Essay

A similar pair of unmarked bowls in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts was included in the exhibition, Chinese Ceramics, Los Angeles County Museum, 1952, no. 340; and a single bowl with Qianlong mark is illustrated by Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. 2, London, 1994, no. 793. A bowl, also of Qianlong date, with a similarly executed, simpler design, is illustrated in Zhongguo taoci daxi (Chinese Ceramic Series), Qingdai taoci daquan (Qing Ceramics), Taipei, 1987-89, p. 307