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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF DR. AND MRS. JEROME S. COLES
1387
A RARE LARGE CELADON-GLAZED RELIEF-DECORATED BOWL
QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE
AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
The deep sides rise towards a fared rim and are relief-decorated on the exterior with fowers and fruits
including peony, fnger citron, prunus, camellia, pomegranate, lychee, lotus and peach, and the bowl is
covered inside and out below the white rim with a soft blue-green glaze that also covers the base.
13Ω in. (34.3 cm.) diam.

$40,000-60,000

The present bowl is unusual for its generous proportions which are emphasized by its fne potting
and faring rim. Other related celadon-glazed and relief-decorated bowls are often of heavier potting
and straight rims, and more repetitive ‘peony scroll’ decoration.
Bowls of this type were made in both the Yongzheng and Qianlong periods. A Qianlong-period
example from the Meiyintang Collection is illustrated by R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the
Meiyintang Collection, London, 1994-2010, vol. Four (II), no. 1804, and was sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong,
9 October 2012, lot 33.
A related Yongzheng-period example is illustrated by A. du Boulay, Christie’s Pictorial History of Chinese
Ceramics, Glasgow/New Jersey, 1984, p. 219, col. pl. 2, and another is illustrated by R. Krahl, The
Anthony de Rothschild Collection of Chinese Ceramics, vol. 2, London, 1996, no. 144; another Yongzheng
example from the British Rail Pension Fund was sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 16 May 1989, lot 57.
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