A SELECTION OF QING PORCELAINS FROM THE ESTATE OF PATRICK H. BOOTH, JR. (LOTS 1499-1513)

A REVERSE-DECORATED CORAL-GROUND BOWL

QIANLONG SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

Details

A REVERSE-DECORATED CORAL-GROUND BOWL
QIANLONG SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
With deep rounded sides rising to a slightly everted rim, the exterior painted with a pattern of conjoined leafy tendrils forming arabesques enclosing peony blossoms in the upper register and lotus blossoms in the lower, all in white and finely penciled coral reserved on a rich coral ground, the interior white
5 in. (12.6 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Guest & Gray, London.

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Lot Essay

A similar bowl with Qianlong mark in the Percival David Foundation is illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol. 6, Tokyo, 1982, pl. 94; and three bowls, also with Qianlong marks, in the Ohlmer Collection, Roemer Museum, Hildesheim, are illustrated by U. Wiesner, Chinesisches Porzellan, Mainz am Rhein, 1981, no. 130-2.

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