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A RARE TURQUOISE-GLAZED BOWL 清雍正 松石綠釉盌
YONGZHENG MARK AND PERIOD
《大清雍正年製》款
delicately potted, with gently rounded sides resting on a
tapered foot, covered to the exterior save for the base with 展覽
a rich turquoise-blue glaze, the base inscribed with a six-
character reign mark within a circle 《明清一色釉瓷》，敏求精舍，香港藝術館，
Diameter 9.4 cm, 3¾ in. 香港，1977年，編號55
《求知雅集珍藏•中國古陶瓷展》，香港中文大學
EXHIBITED 文物館，香港，1981年，編號137
Monochrome Ceramics of Ming and Ch’ing Dynasties, Hong 《中國名陶日本巡迴展•港台名家收藏陶瓷精品》，
Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1977, cat. no. 55. 日本橋高島屋，東京，1992年，第181頁
Exhibition of Ancient Chinese Ceramics from the Collection of
the Kau Chi Society of Chinese Art, Art Gallery, The Chinese
University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 1981, cat. no. 137.
Zhongguo mingtao riben xunhui zhan. Gangtai mingjia
shoucang taoci jingpin [Exhibition of Famous Chinese
Ceramics Touring Japan. Fine Ceramics from Private Hong
Kong and Taiwanese Collections], Nihonbashi Takashimaya,
Tokyo, 1992, p. 181.
‡ £ 40,000-60,000

This charming bowl belongs to select group of exquisitely
potted hemispherical bowls covered in vivid pastel
enamels and made in the Yongzheng period. Known also
in lemon yellow, rose-pink, coral red and lime green,
examples covered in this striking turquoise glaze are
unusual. This enamel colour was first developed during
the Yongzheng period and was achieved by adding an
opaque white enamel to the glaze mixture.
A closely related bowl in the Fondation Baur, Geneva, is
illustrated in John Ayers, The Baur Collection Geneva.
Chinese Ceramics, Geneva, 1972, vol. III, pl. A478;
another in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York,
is published in Suzanne G. Valenstein, A Handbook
of Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1989, pl. 257; a third,
from the collection of Emily Trevor and the Meiyintang
collection, was sold at Christie’s New York in 2007, and
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in our Hong Kong rooms, 4 April 2012, lot 2; and its pair
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was sold in these rooms, 7 November 2012, lot 270.

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