A PAIR OF REVERSE-DECORATED CORAL-GROUND BOWLS

THE PROPERTY OF AN ASIAN GENTLEMAN

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A PAIR OF REVERSE-DECORATED CORAL-GROUND BOWLS
QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEALMARKS AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

Each bowl decorated with two registers of stylised flower-heads with dense scrolling tendrils, the details of petals and leaves pencilled in iron-red, all reserved against a rich coral-red ground
5 1/4 in. (13.3 cm.) diam., box (2)

Lot Essay

Previously sold in our London Rooms, 18 June 2002, lot 245.

Compare a similar bowl in the Percival David Foundation, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, Kodansha Series, Japan, 1982, vol. 6, pl. 94; and three bowls in the Roemer Museum, Hildesheim, illustrated in The Ohlmer Collection, nos. 130-132.

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