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A PAIR OF CORAL-GROUND RESERVE- PROVENANCE
DECORATED ‘LOTUS’ BOWLS The Chang Collection, Chicago
QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARKS IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE The Goldschmidt Collection of Qing Imperial Porcelain, sold at
AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795) Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 13 November 1990, lot 28
Each bowl is finely decorated with leafy scrolls bearing various EXHIBITED
stylised lotus flowers, all reserved in white against an opaque, S. Marchant and Son, Exhibition of Qing Mark and Period
even coral ground. The details of the flowers and leaves are finely Monochrome and Two-Coloured Wares, London, 7-26 June 1992,
pencilled. The interiors are left undecorated. Catalogue, no. 48
5 in. (12.5 cm.) diam, cloth box (2) Two almost identical bowls both from the collections of Carlo Maria

HK$1,200,000-1,800,000 US$160,000-230,000 Franzero and Corrado Zingone, were sold at Christie’s New York, 17-18
March 2016, lot 1625, and Christie’s New York, 14 September 2017, lot
747.
A similar single bowl is in the Percival David Foundation now on long-
term loan to the British Museum, accession number PDF,B.700 and
illustrated in Margaret Medley, Oriental Ceramics, The World’s Great
Collections, vol. 6, Tokyo, 1982, pl. 94. Three further Qianlong-marked
bowls can be found in the Ohlmer Collection, Roemer Museum,
Hildesheim, and are illustrated by U. Wiesner, Chinesisches Porzellan,
Mainz am Rhein, 1981, nos. 130-2.

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