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A FINE AND RARE CELADON-GLAZED ‘FLORAL’ 清雍正 粉青釉淺浮雕纏枝花卉紋盌
BOWL, MARK AND PERIOD OF YONGZHENG 《大清雍正年製》款
the base with a six-character mark in underglaze blue within
a double circle
Diameter 8¾ in., 22.3 cm 來源：
Carl Gimbel (1881-1946) 收藏
PROVENANCE
Collection of Carl Gimbel (1881-1946).
The present bowl is remarkable for its lustrous glaze, elegant
form and finely delineated floral scrolls to the exterior,
epitomizing the celebrated qualities of sophistication and
perfection in Yongzheng porcelains. The luminous, jade-like
quality of the celadon glaze, which is deeply rooted in the
ceramic tradition of the Song dynasty, encapsulates the
Emperor’s penchant for these early wares and his insistence
on outstanding quality.
This bowl belongs to a special group of celadon-glazed
bowls, all of this form and size, but with varying design band
decoration, made on the order of the Qing Court catering
to the Emperor’s sophisticated taste and fondness for
elegant monochrome wares. A closely related Yongzheng
celadon bowl from the collection of Professor Edward
T. Hall, inventory no. 541, carved with a ruyi head design,
illustrated in Sotheby’s Hong Kong Twenty Years, Hong Kong,
1993, cat. no. 314, was sold in our Hong Kong rooms,
2nd May 2000, lot 527. Compare also a similar bowl from
the collection of Ira and Nancy Koger, sold in these rooms,
27th November 1990, lot 29. See another decorated with
the Eight Buddhist Emblems, sold most recently in our
Hong Kong rooms, 9th October 2020, lot 98.
Carl Gimbel (1881-1946) arrived in China in 1908, the last
years of the Qing dynasty, to set up the Imperial Waterworks
in Beijing, and was professor of mathematics and statistics
at the Imperial University, Beijing. In the mid 1910s, he
was appointed a district superintendent in the Chinese
salt administration, where he served in different part of
China until the late 1920s, when he retired and returned to
Denmark. He was awarded the rank of Mandarin of the third
degree, a rare honor for a foreigner.
⊖ $ 60,000-80,000

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