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A Small Chinese Export Verte-Imari Bowl Qing Dynasty, Kangxi Period | 清康熙 五彩博古花卉圖小盌

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April 21, 04:36 PM GMT

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Property from an Important Private Collection


A Small Chinese Export Verte-Imari Bowl Qing Dynasty, Kangxi Period


清康熙 五彩博古花卉圖小盌


the lobed sides supported by a straight foot and rising to a scalloped rim, the exterior with eight panels painted in famille-verte, iron-red, powder-blue and gilt and underglaze-blue respectively, the interior with a central roundel decorated with shells amidst crashing waves


width 4 ½ in.; 11.5 cm

Guest and Gray, London
A closely related bowl of larger size is in the collection of the British Museum, London, donated by Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks, acc. no. Franks. 352. A similarly decorated dish is in the collection of the Groninger Museum, Groningen, and illustrated in Christaan J. A. Jörg, Famille Verte: Chinese Porcelain in Green Enamels, Groningen, 2011, cat. no. 57, where the author notes that this design demonstrates high levels of technical skill required in its production, which involved three firings for the various enamels and decorations.