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9/2/2020 Important Chinese Art | Sotheby's

Impo rtant Chinese Art
New York |23 Sep 2020 | 09:00 AM EDT

Lot 536

A FINE CAFE -AU-LAIT- GLAZED BOWL, YONGZHENG MARK AND PE RIOD
Estimate: 20,000 - 30,000 USD

A FINE CAFE-AU-LAIT-GLAZED BOWL
YONGZHENG MARK AND PERIOD
清雍正 米黃釉盌 《大清雍正年製》款

the rounded sides sweeping up from a short straight foot to an everted rim, the exterior bathed in a creamy beige glaze
contrasting with the white interior, the base with a six-character mark in underglaze blue within a double circle

Diameter 4¾ in., 12 cm

Provenance
Collection of Dr. James D. Thornton (1921-2018).
Gifted to a Southern Institution in 1974.

來源
James D. Thornton 醫生 (1921-2018) 收藏
1974年贈與一南方機構

Catalogue Note
A similar pale café-au-lait Yongzheng bowl with a white interior from the Salting Collection is in the Victoria & Albert Museum,
London, acc. no. c.505-1910. Compare also a bowl of this type sold at Christie’s New York, 16th September 2016, lot 1334. A
related Yongzheng-marked bowl but covered inside and out with a similar buff-colored glaze from the Palace Museum, Beijing, is
illustrated in Kangxi. Yongzheng. Qianlong, Hong Kong, 1989, pl. 135.

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