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VARIOUS PROPERTIES
1842
A RARE RELIEF-DECORATED GREEN-ENAMELED
'NARCISSUS' BOWL
QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER IMPRESSED SEAL MARK AND
OF THE PERIOD (1735-1796)
The shallow bowl with everted rim is raised on four feet, and the sides The present 'narcissus' bowl and its companion, lot 1843, were
are finely decorated in relief with six foliate sprays, each centered by a formerly in the collection of Dr. Robert Kemper, an avid collector with
central blossom flanked by two blossoms shown in profile, all borne on a passionate interest in Asian Art. He was instrumental in forming the
scrolling stems, while each foot is decorated with stylized conjoined Asian Art Society in Cincinnati in 1976, which promotes the exchange
tendrils, the whole covered overall with an opaque enamel of milky of ideas among people interested in both collecting and appreciating
mint-green color. Asian Art. The Asian Art Society also works with and supports the
7¡ in. (18.9 cm.) diam. curator of Asian Art at the Cincinnati Art Museum, where a number of
works from Dr. Kemper’s collection reside today.
$60,000-80,000

PROVENANCE:
Dr. Robert Kemper (1924-2016) Collection, Ohio. 清乾隆 綠釉浮雕凸花番蓮紋水仙盆 六字篆書印款

The combination of green enamel and carved or molded relief
decoration can also be seen on various Qianlong mark and period
wares. A green-enameled gu-form hat stand with dragon design in
the National Palace Museum, Taipei, is illustrated in Qingdai danse
you ciqi tezhan mulu (Special exhibition of monochrome glazed
porcelain of the Qing dynasty), Taipei, 1981, no. 48; and a green-
enameled lantern vase carved with dragons amidst waves was
exhibited in Hong Kong Museum of Art and illustrated in In Pursuit of
Antiquities: Min Chiu Society 40th Anniversary Exhibition, Hong Kong,
2001, no. 187.
(mark)