A REVERSE-DECORATED CORAL-GROUND BOWL
A REVERSE-DECORATED CORAL-GROUND BOWL
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A REVERSE-DECORATED CORAL-GROUND BOWL

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

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A REVERSE-DECORATED CORAL-GROUND BOWL
QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
The bowl has deep, rounded sides rising to a slightly everted rim, and is decorated on the exterior with a pattern of conjoined leafy tendrils forming arabesques enclosing peony blossoms in the upper register and lotus blossoms in the lower register, all in white and finely penciled coral reserved on a rich coral ground.
5 in. (12.7 cm.) diam.
Provenance
Carlo Maria Franzero (1892-1986) Collection, Italy.
Corrado Zingone Collection, Italy.

Lot Essay

An identical bowl, also from the collections of Carlo Maria Franzero and Corrado Zingone, was sold at Christie’s New York, 17-18 March 2016, lot 1625.

Another similar bowl with a 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, nos. 130-2.

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