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A LARGE MING-STYLE COPPER-RED-DECORATED
BOWL
CHINA, QING DYNASTY, YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN The design on the present bowl is inspired by early fifteenth-century
UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD prototypes, such as the small rounded bowl with Xuande mark included
(1723-1735)
in the Exhibition of Imperial Porcelain of the Yongle and Xuande Periods
With deep rounded sides rising to a slightly everted rim, the exterior Excavated from the Site of the Ming Imperial Factory at Jingdezhen, Hong
decorated with three fish in copper-red of crushed strawberry tone Kong Museum of Art, 1989, no. 75. In the Ming dynasty the motif of
7Ω in. (19 cm.) diam. three fish, however, is more often found on stem bowls.
$30,000-50,000
A Yongzheng-period bowl of this design is illustrated in Sekai Toji
Zenshu, vol. 15, Toyko, 1983, pl. 39; and a smaller bowl from the
PROVENANCE:
Nanjing Museum was included in the exhibition, Qing Imperial Porcelain
The James and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection, Chicago, acquired prior to
of the Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong Reigns, The Chinese University
1990.
of Hong Kong, 1995, no. 49. A slightly smaller (6 in.) bowl was sold at
Christie’s Hong Kong, 1 June 2011, lot 3917.
清雍正 白地釉裏紅三魚紋盌 雙圈六字楷書款

來源:
詹姆斯及瑪麗蓮·阿爾斯多夫珍藏，芝加哥，於1990年前入藏。

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