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A RARE YELLOW-GROUND GREEN-ENAMELLED 'PEACH AND BIRD' BOWL Yongzheng six-character mark and of the period
18 March 2019, 10:00 EDT
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A RARE YELLOW-GROUND GREEN-ENAMELLED 'PEACH AND BIRD' BOWL
Yongzheng six-character mark and of the period
Well potted with deep rounded sides supported on a tapered foot ring, the exterior finely incised and reserved in green enamel against the yellow-glazed ground with a repeated pattern of a fruiting peach tree and blossoming sprays growing adjacent to a garden rock, with two birds perched on the grass and two further birds in flight, all between a pair of incised lines filled with green enamel at the rim and another pair of incised lines around the foot ring, the yellow base inscribed in brown with the six-character reign mark within a double circle.
4 7/8in (12.4cm) diam.
Well potted with deep rounded sides supported on a tapered foot ring, the exterior finely incised and reserved in green enamel against the yellow-glazed ground with a repeated pattern of a fruiting peach tree and blossoming sprays growing adjacent to a garden rock, with two birds perched on the grass and two further birds in flight, all between a pair of incised lines filled with green enamel at the rim and another pair of incised lines around the foot ring, the yellow base inscribed in brown with the six-character reign mark within a double circle.
4 7/8in (12.4cm) diam.
Footnotes
清雍正 黃地綠彩花鳥圖盌 《大清雍正年製》款
Provenance:
Virginia Hobart (1876-1958), thence by descent
A bowl similar to the present lot is illustrated by John Ayers, Far Eastern Ceramics in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1980, pl. 210. One example was sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 8 October 2013, lot 3122; and another at Christie's Hong Kong, 28 October 2002, lot 740; and a third example was sold in our London rooms 17 May 2012, lot 329.