A COPPER-RED-GLAZED STEM BOWL
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A COPPER-RED-GLAZED STEM BOWL

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

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A COPPER-RED-GLAZED STEM BOWL
QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
The stem bowl is well potted with deep flaring sides supported on a short, splayed pedestal foot encircled by bow-stringbands, and the exterior is covered with a rich raspberry-red glaze thinning to a light pink tone.
7 3/8 in. (18.8 cm.) diam., Japanese wood box
Provenance
S. Marchant & Son, London, 20 June 1984, no. 64.
Christie's New York, 20 September 2005, lot 289.

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Lot Essay

A similar stem bowl with a Qianlong seal mark was included in the Min Chiu Society exhibition, Monochrome Ceramics of Ming and Ch'ing Dynasties, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1977, p. 32, no. 18; and another is illustrated in Sekai toji zenshu, vol. 15, Tokyo, 1983, p. 207, fig. 96.

A stem bowl of similar size with a Yongzheng mark, is illustrated in Joined Colors: Decoration and Meaning in Chinese Porcelain: Ceramics from Collectors in the Min Chiu Society, Hong Kong, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 1993, p. 73, no. 2.

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