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308 AN UNDERGLAZE ⌲Ꮴ⛆ 䱿㟞䛶㷼㈲ള⮪䰗ᶲృ⯹
BLUE AND COPPER-
RED ‘PRUNUS’ BOWL

Qing Dynasty, Kangxi Period ҳ⎽
George 1911 1989 ⿻ Cornelia Wing! eld Digby 佐询
the widely $ ared sides rising to a slightly
㤹卌⼑❏豤㺢嫲2003䎃6剢12傈管贫1121
everted rim, the exterior with two pendent
Marchant⧍侚2005䎃
underglaze-blue prunus branches laden with
bright copper-red and slip-modeled blossoms
beneath a fringe of bamboo leaves at the rim,
the interior centered with a medallion of a
further prunus with copper-red blooms, a band
of prunus reserved against a blue ‘cracked ice’
ground at the interior rim, the base with an
illegible seal mark, coll. no. 1338.
Diameter 8⅞ in., 22.5 cm
PROVENANCE
Collection of George (1911-1989) and Cornelia
Wing! eld Digby.
Sotheby’s Olympia, 12th June 2003, lot 1121.
Marchant, London, 2005.
$ 5,000-7,000

The present bowl is exceptional for its A bowl decorated in the same technique and
generous size and successful bright tones motif, but of slightly smaller size, without
of both the underglaze cobalt blue and rim decoration and bearing an apocryphal
copper red. A nearly identical bowl is in the Chenghua mark in the Palace Museum
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam and illustrated in Collection is illustrated in Chen Runmin, Qing
Christiaan J. A. Jörg, Chinese Ceramics in the Shunzhi Kangxi chao qinghua ci [Qing Dynasty
Collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Blue and White Porcelains of the Shunzhi and
London, 1977, pl. 125b, together with another Kangxi Periods], Beijing, 2005, pl. 140.
closely related example (ibid., pl. 125).

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