A PAIR OF FAMILLE VERTE CORAL-GROUND 'BOYS' BOWLS
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A PAIR OF FAMILLE VERTE CORAL-GROUND 'BOYS' BOWLS

UNDERGLAZE-BLUE JIAQING SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARKS AND OF THE PERIOD (1796-1820)

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A PAIR OF FAMILLE VERTE CORAL-GROUND 'BOYS' BOWLS
UNDERGLAZE-BLUE JIAQING SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARKS AND OF THE PERIOD (1796-1820)
Each with wide rounded sides rising from a straight foot, the exteriors well enamelled and gilt on a coral ground, with four groups of four boys gathered playing and engaged in leisurely pursuits beside rocks and plantain on a continuous fenced garden terrace, all reserved on an even red ground, the rail posts, surrounding trees and vegetation picked out in gilt, the interiors and bases glazed white, one repaired
8¼ in. (21 cm.) diam. (2)
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Lot Essay

Jiaqing-marked bowls of this pattern are recorded, as are rare Kangxi versions. For examples of the later bowls see the O. C. S. Exhibition of Ch'ing Polychrome Porcelain, 1977, no. 100, subsequently sold in our London Rooms, 13 December 1982, lot 528; one included in The Wonders of the Potter's Palette, 1986, no. 93; and another, illustrated by Avitable, From the Dragon's Treasure, Chinese Porcelain from the 19th and 20th Centuries in the Weishaupt Collection, p. 37, fig. 32.

A Kangxi example of this pattern was sold in Hong Kong, 15th November 1983, lot 298.

A Kangxi famille verte example on a white ground and with Chenghua mark in the Palace Museum, Beijing, is included in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum - Porcelains in Polychrome and Contrasting Colours, Commercial Press, Hong Kong, 1999, no. 119, pp.130-131.

For a Chenghua blue and white example of this pattern see Far Eastern Ceramics in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, col. pl. 49, and one sold in our Hong Kong Rooms, 2 October 1991, lot 749; a Kangxi blue and white example was sold in Hong Kong, 26th October 1993, lot 164; a pair of Qianlong blue and white examples was sold in New York, 19th November 1982, lot 284; a Daoguang example, exhibited in the Exhibition Imperial Porcelain of Late Qing From the Kwan Collection, was subsequently sold in our Singapore Rooms, 30th March 1997, lot 242.

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