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A FINE AND RARE INCISED CELADON-GLAZED During the Ming dynasty, the Jingdezhen kilns started
‘FLORAL’ BOWL producing celadon wares mimicking those from the
YONGZHENG MARK AND PERIOD Longquan kilns in Zhejiang province, a tradition which
continued into the Qing. This reached new heights in the
the steep sides gently flaring to a subtly everted rim, incised Yongzheng period, whereby the soothing blue-green glazes
with six rounded stylized flowerheads borne on a scrolling of the Song and Yuan periods were combined with the fine
vine issuing further buds and tender leaves, covered overall white body and technical perfection of the Jingdezhen kilns.
in a pale celadon glaze draining to white at the rim, the Combining a luminous celadon glaze and a delicate incised
recessed base similarly glazed and inscribed with a six- motif of stylized flowers, this bowl was modeled on Yongle
character mark in underglaze blue within a double circle prototypes. A Yongle bowl of this design from the Qing Court
Diameter 6½ in., 16.5 cm Collection and still in Beijing, is illustrated in The Complete
Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum. Monochrome
PROVENANCE Porcelain, Hong Kong, 1991, pl. 169.
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 28th November 1978, lot 181. Yongzheng mark and period bowls of this type are unusual,
Marchant, London. and this motif is more commonly found on bowls made in
Collection of Professor E. T. Hall (1924-2001), coll. no. 53. succeeding reigns. See a Jiaqing mark and period version in
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 2nd May 2000, lot 541. the National Palace Museum, Taipei, included in the Special
Marchant, London, June 2002.
Exhibition of Ch’ing-Dynasty Monochrome Porcelains in the
National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1981, cat. no. 97; and a
LITERATURE
slightly smaller Daoguang mark and period example sold in
Karen Thomson, ed., The Blema and H. Arnold Steinberg these rooms, 6th December 1978, lot 981 and again, 13th
Collection, Montreal, 2015, pl. 147.
November 1990, lot 200.
$ 50,000-70,000

清雍正 冬青釉暗花纏枝團花紋盌

《大清雍正年製》款
來源
香港蘇富比1978年11月28日，編號181
Marchant，倫敦
E. T. Hall 教授 (1924-2001) 收藏，收藏編號53
香港蘇富比2000年5月2日，編號541
Marchant，倫敦，2002年6月
出版
Karen Thomson 編，《The Blema and H. Arnold
Steinberg Collection》，蒙特利爾，2015年，圖版147

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