A REVERSE-DECORATED CORAL-GROUND BOWL

DAOGUANG SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1821-1850)

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A REVERSE-DECORATED CORAL-GROUND BOWL
DAOGUANG SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1821-1850)
With deep sides flaring slightly towards the rim, the exterior decorated with a pattern of conjoined leafy tendrils forming arabesques that enclose peony blossoms above and lotus blossoms below, all in white and finely penciled coral reserved on a deep coral ground, the interior white
5 in. (12.7 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Christie's, New York, 4 June 1987, lot 313.
Greenwald Collection no. 69.

Literature

Gerald M. Greenwald, The Greenwald Collection, Two Thousand Years of Chinese Ceramics, 1996, no. 69.

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Lot Essay

A bowl of this pattern with Daoguang mark is illustrated by S. Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1989 ed., p. 273, no. 282. Another is illustrated in the exhibition catalogue, Imperial Porcelain of Late Qing from the Kwan Collection, Art Gallery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1983, no. 69. See, also, the pair from the E.T. Chow Collection sold in our London rooms, 12 November 2002, lot 62, and another single bowl sold 3 November 2009, lot 203.

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