A FINE AND RARE PAIR OF LAVENDER-BLUE-GLAZED BOWLS

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A FINE AND RARE PAIR OF LAVENDER-BLUE-GLAZED BOWLS
YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARKS IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD

Each with rounded, flaring sides covered on the exterior with a thin glaze of pale lavender-blue tone pooling in a darker line where the lower body joins the foot, the white glaze of the interior with the very slightest blue-green tint
4 11/16in. (11.8cm.) diam. (2)

Provenance

Parke Bernet, New York, November 27, 1941, lot 561
Stephen Junkunc, III

Lot Essay

A similar pair of bowls was included in the exhibition, Chinese Porcelain: The S.C. Tianminlou Collection, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1987, Catalogue, vol. I, no. 148; and a single bowl of larger size (15.3 cm.) in the Victoria and Albert Museum is illustrated by Rose Kerr, Chinese Ceramics: Porcelain of the Qing Dynasty, London, 1986, p. 45, pl. 20. A pair of the same size, but with slightly everted rim, in the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, is illustrated by Wirgin, "Chinese Ceramics from the Axel and Nora Lundgren Bequest", B.M.F.E.A., No. 50, 1978, pl. 57a, no. 75