A PAIR OF YELLOW AND GREEN-GLAZED 'BOYS' BOWL
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A PAIR OF YELLOW AND GREEN-GLAZED 'BOYS' BOWL

YONGZHENG UNDERGLAZE-BLUE SIX-CHARACTER MARKS WITHIN DOUBLE-CIRCLES AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)

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A PAIR OF YELLOW AND GREEN-GLAZED 'BOYS' BOWL
YONGZHENG UNDERGLAZE-BLUE SIX-CHARACTER MARKS WITHIN DOUBLE-CIRCLES AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)
Well potted with rounded sides rising to a flared rim, the exterior finely incised with boys playing musical instruments forming a procession on a terraced garden beneath pine trees, between a band of lotus petal lappets below a foliate band above, all under a green glaze reserved against a yellow ground
6¼ in. (15.8 cm.) (2)
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Lot Essay

A Yongzheng bowl of this design is illustrated in Chinese Porcelain, The S. C. Ko Tianminlou Collection, Hong Kong, 1987, pl. 103; one illustrated by J. Ayers, Chinese Ceramics, The Koger Collection, London and New York, 1985, pl. 121; one from the Hall Family Collection was sold by Sotheby's Hong Kong, 2 May 2000, lot 535; and another is illustrated by J. Ayers, Chinese Ceramics in the Baur Collection, Geneva, 1999, vol. 2, pl. 203. Similar bowls with the different border at the mouth rim are also published: one in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, illustrated by R. Kerr, Chinese Ceramics, Porcelain of the Qing Dynasty 1644-1911, London, 1986, front cover; and a bowl sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 1 December 2010, lot 3200

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