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Lot Essay
The attractive form of the current bowl appears to have originated during the Yongzheng reign. It can be found in a range of sizes, from as small as a wine cups measuring just over 6 cm. in diameter, to large bowls measuring over 20 cm. in diameter. The present pair, appears to be the only known examples decorated with turquoise enamel and of this size.
Other Yongzheng-marked bowls of this form include: a smaller pair of lemon-yellow enamelled cups (6.3 cm.), sold at Sotheby’s New York, 18 September 1996, lot 221; a white-glazed cup (7 cm.) moulded with longer petals on the upper tier with incised details illustrated in The Wonders of the Potter’s Palette, Qing Ceramics from the Collection of the Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1984, pp. 100-101, no.58; a lime-green enamelled bowl (15.5 cm.) in the Victoria and Albert Museum, illustrated by R. Kerr in Chinese Ceramics: Porcelain of the Qing Dynasty, 1644-1911, London, 1986, p. 92, no. 66; a pair of lemon-yellow enamelled bowls (15.2 cm.) from the E. T. Hall collection, sold at Christie’s London, 7 June 2004, lot 277; a white-glazed bowl (15.5 cm.) in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Gugong Bowuyuan cang Qingdai yuyao ciqi [Porcelains from the Qing dynasty imperial kilns in the Palace Museum], vol. 1, pt. II, Beijing, 2005, no. 96; and a large lemon-yellow enamelled bowl (20.7 cm.), sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 27 October 2003, lot 703.
Other Yongzheng-marked bowls of this form include: a smaller pair of lemon-yellow enamelled cups (6.3 cm.), sold at Sotheby’s New York, 18 September 1996, lot 221; a white-glazed cup (7 cm.) moulded with longer petals on the upper tier with incised details illustrated in The Wonders of the Potter’s Palette, Qing Ceramics from the Collection of the Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1984, pp. 100-101, no.58; a lime-green enamelled bowl (15.5 cm.) in the Victoria and Albert Museum, illustrated by R. Kerr in Chinese Ceramics: Porcelain of the Qing Dynasty, 1644-1911, London, 1986, p. 92, no. 66; a pair of lemon-yellow enamelled bowls (15.2 cm.) from the E. T. Hall collection, sold at Christie’s London, 7 June 2004, lot 277; a white-glazed bowl (15.5 cm.) in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Gugong Bowuyuan cang Qingdai yuyao ciqi [Porcelains from the Qing dynasty imperial kilns in the Palace Museum], vol. 1, pt. II, Beijing, 2005, no. 96; and a large lemon-yellow enamelled bowl (20.7 cm.), sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 27 October 2003, lot 703.