A rare pair of coral-ground bowls Qianlong seal marks and of the period
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A rare pair of coral-ground bowls
Qianlong seal marks and of the period
The interiors plain, the exterior reserved on a rich even opaque iron-red ground with alternate blossoming lotus in profile and large budding peony heads with the petals coiled, all linked by dense formal leafy scroll, wood stands.
12.8cm (5 1/8in) diam. (4).
Sold for £127,250 inc. premium

Footnotes

  • Provenance: The Chang Collection, Chicago
    Henry and Beatrice Goldschmit, sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 13 November 1991, lot 28
    S.Marchant and Son, London
    The Rolf Heiniger Collection of Qing Imperial Wares, no.11
    The Harriet Szechenyi Collection, Switzerland

    Exhibited: S.Marchant and Son, Qing Mark and Period Monochrome and Two-Coloured Wares, London, June 1992, no.48

    Bowls of this type have been widely published. See for example M.Medley, Illustrated Catalogue of Porcelains Decorated in Underglaze-blue and Copper-red, London, 1963, pl.94 for the example in the Percival David Foundation, London; and the one illustrated by U.Wiesner, Chinesisches Porzellan, Die Ohlmersche Sammlung, for the example in the Roemer Museum, Hildesheim.

Category: Asian Art / Chinese Works of Art

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