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Kangxi Porcelain – A Private Collection
New York |22 Sep 2020 | 09:00 AM EDT

Lot 121

A PAIR OF CELADON- GROUND FAMILLE -VERTE 'FRUI T' BOWLS AND COVERS, KANGXI MARKS AND
PE RIOD
Estimate: 10,000 - 15,000 USD

A PAIR OF CELADON-GROUND FAMILLE-VERTE 'FRUIT' BOWLS AND COVERS
KANGXI MARKS AND PERIOD
清康熙 冬青地五彩花果紋蓋盌一對 《大清康熙年製》款

each bowl of deep rounded form rising from a short straight foot to a slightly flaring brown-dressed rim, the domed cover in the
form of an everted saucer with pronounced footring, the exterior painted with flowering and fruiting branches in green and iron-red
enamels outlined in black on a celadon ground, the interior painted with a five-petal floret enclosed within a double circle in
underglaze blue, the base and cover both inscribed with a six-character mark in underglaze blue (4)

Diameter 4¾ in., 12 cm

Catalogue Note
Compare a closely related bowl and cover from the Qing Court Collection, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the
Palace Museum. Porcelains in Polychrome and Contrasting Colours, Hong Kong, 1999, pl. 152. Another closely related bowl and
cover, formerly in the H. M. Knight Collection, was exhibited in Oosterse Schatten, 4000 Jaar Aziatische Kunst, Rijksmuseum,
Amsterdam, 1954, cat. no. 326, and later sold in our London rooms, 9th June 2004, lot 203. The third example, without the cover
and inscribed with a da ming nian zhi mark, formerly in the Sir Percival David Collection, sold at Christie’s London, 15th October
1968, lot 136, and again in the same rooms, 16th May 1998, lot 156.

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