AN EXTREMELY FINE AND VERY RARE INCISED IVORY-GLAZED BOWL

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AN EXTREMELY FINE AND VERY RARE INCISED IVORY-GLAZED BOWL
YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN DOUBLE-CIRCLES AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)

The bowl is raised on a high foot, the deep sides curving to a straight mouth rim, finely incised on the exterior with a flower scroll bearing six flowers including lotus and chrysanthemum above a formal petal lappet border, the foot is incised with double lines, covered on the interior and exterior with a pale cafe-au-lait glaze, thinning to white at the rim
6 1/4 in. (15.9 cm.) diam., box

Provenance

Bluett and Sons, London
The E. G. Kostolany collection
The K. W. Woolcombe-Boyce collection
Mr and Mrs P. Selinka, Ravensburg, Germany

Literature

Ulrich Wiesner, Chinesische Keramik, Meisterwerke aus Privatsammlungen, Koln, Germany, 1988, p. 167, no. 121.

Lot Essay

No other bowl of this design appears to be published. Cf. a slightly smaller Yongzheng-marked bowl covered inside and out with a similar buff-coloured glaze but without any incised decoration, from the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Kangxi Yongzheng Qianlong, Hong Kong, 1989, p. 306, pl. 135. Another bowl with this glaze colour with incised and reserved floral designs around the exterior is illustrated by R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, Vol. 2, London, 1994, pl. 814.

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