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Lot Essay
The present bowl is unusual for its generous proportions which are emphasized by its fine potting and flaring rim. Other related celadon-glazed and relief-decorated bowls are often of heavier potting and straight rims, and more repetitive 'peony scroll' decoration.
Bowls of this type were made in both the Yongzheng and Qianlong periods. A Qianlong-period example from the Meiyintang Collection is illustrated by R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, London, 1994-2010, vol. Four (II), no. 1804, and was sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 9 October 2012, lot 33.
A related Yongzheng-period example is illustrated by A. du Boulay, Christie's Pictorial History of Chinese Ceramics, Glasgow/New Jersey, 1984, p. 219, col. pl. 2, and another is illustrated by R. Krahl, The Anthony de Rothschild Collection of Chinese Ceramics, vol. 2, London, 1996, no. 144; another Yongzheng example from the British Rail Pension Fund was sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 16 May 1989, lot 57.
Bowls of this type were made in both the Yongzheng and Qianlong periods. A Qianlong-period example from the Meiyintang Collection is illustrated by R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, London, 1994-2010, vol. Four (II), no. 1804, and was sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 9 October 2012, lot 33.
A related Yongzheng-period example is illustrated by A. du Boulay, Christie's Pictorial History of Chinese Ceramics, Glasgow/New Jersey, 1984, p. 219, col. pl. 2, and another is illustrated by R. Krahl, The Anthony de Rothschild Collection of Chinese Ceramics, vol. 2, London, 1996, no. 144; another Yongzheng example from the British Rail Pension Fund was sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 16 May 1989, lot 57.