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dishes, and bearing imperial reign marks. This nos 218, 219. Another identical example is
silhouette technique, which makes use of the illustrated in Bo Gyllensvärd, Chinese Ceramics
copper-red glaze, possibly sandwiched between in the Carl Kempe Collection, Stockholm, 1964,
layers of clear glaze, is di" erent from the more pl., 788; and a bowl of similar palette and
common method of painting designs in copper- decoration was sold at Christie’s Hong Kong,

red pigment directly onto the body before 1st June 2011, lot 3527. Yongzheng mark and
the glaze is applied. The present technique, if period bowls of this same pattern are also
successfully handled, results in intensely red recorded with the copper-red decoration on a
designs which do not allow for the rendering of celadon-glazed ground, for example, the Baur
detail and are best suited for silhouettes. Collection, Geneva has a bowl of this type
illustrated in John Ayers, Chinese Ceramics in
A nearly identical pair to the present example,
the Baur Collection, vol. 2, Geneva, 1999, pl.
from the Malcolm McDonald Collection, in
199 and another is in the Victoria and Albert
the Oriental Museum, Durham University
Museum, London and illustrated in John Ayers,
is illustrated in Ireneus László Legeza, A
Far Eastern Ceramics in the Victoria and Albert
Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue of the
Museum, London, 1980, pl. 206.
Malcolm McDonald Collection of Chinese
Ceramics in the Gulbenkian Museum of Oriental
$ 120,000-150,000
Art and Archaeology School of Oriental Studies
University of Durham, London, 1972, pl. LXXVIII, 㶭晵㬋ġġġ慱塷䲭Ḽ圈䲳䙴ᶨ⮵
˪⣏㶭晵㬋⸜墥˫㫦

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