A FINE IMPERIAL FAMILLE VERTE CORAL-GROUND BOWL
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A FINE IMPERIAL FAMILLE VERTE CORAL-GROUND BOWL

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A FINE IMPERIAL FAMILLE VERTE CORAL-GROUND BOWL
KANGXI YUZHI MARK WITHIN A DOUBLE-SQUARE AND OF THE PERIOD (1662-1722)

Finely potted with rounded sides rising to a flared rim, and richly decorated with blue and yellow peony blossoms encircling the foot rim, below a variety of exotic blooms enamelled in aubergine, blue, yellow, iron-red and two shades of green, all against an even coral-red ground, the interior undecorated
4 3/8 in. (11 cm.) diam., box

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Previously sold in these Rooms, 20 March 1990, lot 567.

Cf. a pair of bowls of this design included in the Exhibition of Ming and Ch'ing Porcelain from the Collection of the T. Y. Chao Family Foundation, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1978, illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 71, and sold in these Rooms, 20 March 1990, lot 566; a pair from the Edward T. Chow collection, sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 25 November 1980, lot 143, and subsequently in the collection of S. C. Ko, illustrated in Chinese Porcelain, The S. C. Ko Tianminlou Collection, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1987, pl. 89; and another pair in the Kau Chi Society Exhibition of Ancient Chinese Ceramics, Hong Kong, 1981, illustrated in the Catalogue no. 153.

A single bowl from in the Palace Museum, Beijing, is illustrated in Kangxi Yongzheng Qianlong, Hong Kong, 1989, p. 104, pl. 87; one in the Shanghai Museum is illustrated in Chugoku Toji Zenshu, vol. 21, pl. 76; a second bowl from the Shanghai Museum was included in the Exhibition of Ceramics Throughout China's History from the Shanghai Museum, Japan, 1984, illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 92; one from the Charles Russell and Paul Bernat Collections, is now in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, illustrated by H. Moss, By Imperial Command, Hong Kong, 1976, pl. 74; and another from the McElney Collection was included the in Art Gallery of Greater Victoria Exhibition of Porcelain of the High Qing, 1983, illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 61.

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