A RARE LARGE COPPER-RED AND UNDERGLAZE BLUE-DECORATED FISH BOWL

Details

A RARE LARGE COPPER-RED AND UNDERGLAZE BLUE-DECORATED FISH BOWL
KANGXI

Of baluster form with rolled rim, finely painted in shades of underglaze red with a continuous pattern of large and small carp swimming in different directions amidst waterweeds and aquatic plants, the water represented by fluidly drawn, thin, wavy lines of varying length running horizontally around the body, the red ranging in tone from brilliant crushed raspberry to liver red, the eyes of the fish and the double line borders at the rim and foot picked out in underglaze blue, the interior glazed white
16in. (40.6cm.) across

Literature

The Tsui Museum of Art, Chinese Ceramics IV, Hong Kong, 1995, no. 54

Lot Essay

Two other large fish bowls with similar decoration have been published. One was included in the exhibition, The Wonders of the Potters Palette, Hong Kong Museum of Art, February 11, 1984-June 1, 1985, Catalogue, no. 11; the other in the Palace Museum Collection, is illustrated in Qing Porcelain of Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong Periods, Hong Kong, 1989, p. 38, no. 21. Compare, also, a related fish bowl of this shape incised with fish, aquatic plants and floating blossoms and covered in a celadon glaze, of Kangxi date, sold in these rooms, June 3, 1988, lot 281