A COPPER-RED 'THREE FISH' STEMBOWL

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A COPPER-RED 'THREE FISH' STEMBOWL
YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN A LINE TO INTERIOR OF THE FOOT AND OF THE PERIOD

The rounded sides resting on a slightly spreading foot, the exterior painted with three fish in silhouette (tiny glaze chips)
6 1/8in. (15.5cm.) diam., box

Lot Essay

Yongzheng stembowls of this pattern are illustrated by Tregear, Guide to Chinese Ceramics in the Department of Eastern Art, Ashmolean Museum, p. 33; by Leth, Catalogue of Selected Objects of Chinese Art in the Museum of Decorative Art, fig. 77, in the Museum fur Kunst and Gewerbe, Hamburg; by Ayers, Chinese Ceramics, The Koger Collection, no. 97; in the Kempe Collection Catalogue, nos. 784, 785 and 786; in Sekai Toji Zenshu, vol. 12, pl. 60; and in the Matsuoka Collection Catalogue, 1975, no. 98.

For the fifteenth century origin of this design, cf. the stemcup of different proportions, with a Xuande reign mark inside the bowl, included in the Illustrated Catalogue of Ming Dynasty Porcelain in the National Palace Museum, pl. 91.

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