A FINE MOLDED PALE CELADON-GLAZED BOWL

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A FINE MOLDED PALE CELADON-GLAZED BOWL
YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD

Well potted, with shallow rounded sides, molded on the exterior with a continuous band of stylized floral vine above a band of overlapping petals radiating from the foot, with delicately incised details, the interior incised with a single flowerhead at the center, covered inside and out with an even, pale bluish-green glaze pooling in the recesses and thinning at the rim
4 7/8in. (12.4cm.) diam.

Provenance

Stephen Junkunc, III

Lot Essay

For other pale celadon-glazed bowls of this pattern and date, but of smaller size (11.4cm.), see Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. 2, London, 1994, no. 856; one illustrated by R. L. Hobson in the Eumorfopoulous Collection, Catalogue, vol. V, London, 1927, pl. XVI, no. E314 and another in the Ohlmer Collection, Roemer Museum, Hildesheim, Catalogue, 1981, pl. 87

A bowl of this pattern with a 'clair-de-lune' glaze was included in the exhibition, Ming and Ch'ing Porcelains from the T.Y. Chao Family Foundation, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1978, Catalogue, no. 56