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

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A RESERVE-DECORATED CORAL-GROUND BOWL
DAOGUANG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE-BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1821-1850)
The bowl is potted with deep rounded sides, raised on a short foot. The exterior is decorated with peony and lotus blossoms encircled by leafy tendrils, reserved on a coral ground.
5 in. (12.7 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Christie's New York, 24-25 March 2011, lot 1792.
Christie's, New York, 4 June 1987, lot 313.
The Gerald M. Greenwald Collection, amassed since the 1980s, no. 69.

Literature

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

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Lot Essay

An earlier bowl with Qianlong mark and of the period (1736-1795) also with this design is in the Percival David Collection at the British Museum, illustrated by Margaret Medley, Oriental Ceramics: The World's Great Collections, vol. 6, Tokyo, 1982, pl. 94. A Daoguang example is illustrated by S. Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1989 ed., p. 273, no. 282. Also see a pair of similarly decorated bowls from the E.T. Chow Collection sold at Christie's London, 12 November 2002, lot 62.

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