A LARGE VERTE-IMARI BOWL

KANGXI PERIOD

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A LARGE VERTE-IMARI BOWL
Kangxi period
With two vertical panels of "antiques" and two of floral sprigs on an iron-red fretwork ground decorated with colorful peony vine, a blue and red lozenge border on the exterior and the inside with an iron-red lotus vine border above large sprigs of peony and chrysanthemum
11¾in. (28.8cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

One of a small group of bowls inspired by Japanese export wares of circa 1680 that must have been ordered in China by the Dutch shortly after they resumed large-scale trading with China. See C.J.A. Jorg, Chinese Ceramics in the Collection of the Rijksmuseum, p. 202 and Christie's King Street, 13 November 2001, lot 238

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