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Lot Essay
The present bowl is distinguished by the delicate combination of the doucai technique and famille rose palette, creating a pleasant and harmonious contrast between the underglaze-blue outline and soft pastel colors. This combination was an innovation during the Yongzheng period, and the current bowl is a representative example rendered in this novel technique.
A number of similarly decorated doucai conical bowls of identical size and dated to the Yongzheng period, are in the collection of important museums and private collections. One example is illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum - 38 - Porcelain in Polychrome and Contrasting Colors, Hong Kong, 1999, p. 250, no. 229. Another example from the Chang Foundation is included in Selected Chinese Ceramics from Han to Qing Dynasties, Chang Foundation, Taipei, 1990, p. 320, no. 141. A further example in the Gulbenkian Museum of Oriental Art and Archaeology, University of Durham, is illustrated by I. L. Legeza in A Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue of the Malcolm MacDonald Collection of Chinese Ceramics, London, 1972, pl. CXXXIX, no. 378. Another example was included in the exhibition Chinese porcelain from the 15th to the 18th century, Eskenazi Ltd., London, 2006, no.12.
Other examples, sold at auction, include one sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 29 May 2013, lot 2113; one sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 1 June 2011, lot 4008; and the example previously in the Paul and Helen Bernat Collection, sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 29 April 2001, lot 552.
A number of similarly decorated doucai conical bowls of identical size and dated to the Yongzheng period, are in the collection of important museums and private collections. One example is illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum - 38 - Porcelain in Polychrome and Contrasting Colors, Hong Kong, 1999, p. 250, no. 229. Another example from the Chang Foundation is included in Selected Chinese Ceramics from Han to Qing Dynasties, Chang Foundation, Taipei, 1990, p. 320, no. 141. A further example in the Gulbenkian Museum of Oriental Art and Archaeology, University of Durham, is illustrated by I. L. Legeza in A Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue of the Malcolm MacDonald Collection of Chinese Ceramics, London, 1972, pl. CXXXIX, no. 378. Another example was included in the exhibition Chinese porcelain from the 15th to the 18th century, Eskenazi Ltd., London, 2006, no.12.
Other examples, sold at auction, include one sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 29 May 2013, lot 2113; one sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 1 June 2011, lot 4008; and the example previously in the Paul and Helen Bernat Collection, sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 29 April 2001, lot 552.