Lot Essay
An identical bowl in the Palace Museum, Beijing is illustrated in Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong, p. 202, pl. 31; one in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, Kansas City, is illustrated in Sekai Toji Zenshu, vol. 12, pl. 64 bottom; another in the Gulbenkian Museum of Oriental Art and Archaeology, University of Durham, is illustrated by Legeza in the Malcolm MacDonald Collection, Catalogue, pl. CXXXIX, no. 378; and one in the Chang Foundation is included in Selected Chinese Ceramics from Han to Qing Dynasties, pl. 141.
A bowl in the Roemer Museum, Hildesheim, pencilled with this decoration but lacking enamels is illustrated in the Ohlmer Collection Catalogue, no. 45, where Weisner records a doucai example in the Victoria and Albert Museum.
A similar bowl from the Paul and Helen Bernat Collection sold in these Rooms, 15 November 1988, lot 10; other examples sold in these Rooms, 8 October 1990, lot 504, and 1 May 1994, lot 690.
(US$115,000-130,000)
A bowl in the Roemer Museum, Hildesheim, pencilled with this decoration but lacking enamels is illustrated in the Ohlmer Collection Catalogue, no. 45, where Weisner records a doucai example in the Victoria and Albert Museum.
A similar bowl from the Paul and Helen Bernat Collection sold in these Rooms, 15 November 1988, lot 10; other examples sold in these Rooms, 8 October 1990, lot 504, and 1 May 1994, lot 690.
(US$115,000-130,000)