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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF
DR. PETER M. GREINER
A COPPER-RED ‘THREE FISH’ BOWL
YONGZHENG MARK AND PERIOD
delicately-potted with deep curved sides rising from a straight
foot to a ared rim, the exterior boldly decorated with three
mandarin sh in rich copper-red silhouettes, all reserved on a
white ground, the interior left undecorated, the base with a six- The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 1995, cat.
character mark within a double circle in underglaze blue
Diameter 4¾ in., 12.2 cm
EXHIBITED
A Walk into China’s Past, Art Center of Battle Creek, Michigan,
1976, cat. no. 80.
Designs in the form of underglaze red silhouettes of animals
and sh originated in the Yongle period (1403-24), when they
were generally combined with underglaze blue decoration. On
early Ming vessels the red sh are, however, mainly seen on
stemcups and stembowls.
After the Xuande period this style of decoration was rarely
used until revived in the Qing dynasty. Yongzheng mark and
period bowls of this form and design are held in museums and
private collections worldwide; see one in the National Palace
Museum, Taipei, included in the Museum’s exhibition Ming
Chenghua ciqi tezhan [Special exhibition of Ming Chenghua
porcelain], Taipei, 1977, cat. no. 100; one in the Nanjing
Museum, included in the exhibition Qing Imperial Porcelain
of the Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong Reigns, Art Gallery,
no. 49; another in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London,
published in Rose Kerr, Chinese Ceramics. Porcelain of the
Qing Dynasty 1644-1911, London, 1998, pl. 11; and a fourth from
the Meiyintang collection, sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 9th
October 2012, lot 50. Another similar bowl sold in our London
rooms, 5th November 2014, lot 8.
$ 20,000-30,000
A Walk into China s Past Art Center of Battle Creek
1976 80
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