Lot Essay
Kangxi bowls of this exact design and fine quality appear to be very rare. Compare with a bowl of the same size and decoration in the Shanghai Museum illustrated in Kangxi Porcelain Ware from the Shanghai Museum Collection, Hong Kong, 1998, p. 303, no. 197. A Kangxi-marked bowl of identical design was sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 1 November 1994, lot 221.
A number of bowls of related design but with more formal and stylised decoration, and often with a cross-hatched border below the rim, have been sold at auction. Compare the present example with a bowl illustrated in The Tsui Museum of Art, Chinese Ceramics IV, Qing Dynasty, Hong Kong, 1995, pl. 112 .
The design is much more commonly found in later reigns during the Qing dynasty such as Yongzheng-marked examples including a bowl illustrated by J. Ayers, Far Eastern Ceramics in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1980, no. 210; a pair illustrated in the Catalogue of Old Oriental Ceramics, Tokyo National Museum, 1953, no. 212; and a single bowl sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 4 November 1996, lot 788.
A number of bowls of related design but with more formal and stylised decoration, and often with a cross-hatched border below the rim, have been sold at auction. Compare the present example with a bowl illustrated in The Tsui Museum of Art, Chinese Ceramics IV, Qing Dynasty, Hong Kong, 1995, pl. 112 .
The design is much more commonly found in later reigns during the Qing dynasty such as Yongzheng-marked examples including a bowl illustrated by J. Ayers, Far Eastern Ceramics in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1980, no. 210; a pair illustrated in the Catalogue of Old Oriental Ceramics, Tokyo National Museum, 1953, no. 212; and a single bowl sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 4 November 1996, lot 788.