Property from Carnegie Museum of Art, Sold to Benefit the Acquisition Fund
A yellow-ground green-enameled 'boys' bowl, Mark and period of Yongzheng
Auction Closed
March 19, 05:41 PM GMT
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
the base with a six-character mark in underglaze blue within a double circle
Diameter 5⅞ in., 14.9 cm
Collection of Ailsa Mellon Bruce (1901-1969), prior to 1969.
Gifted to the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, 1970 (accession no. 70.32.2443).
Related yellow-ground bowls decorated in green enamel with children at play are held in important museum and private collections worldwide; for example, see a bowl in the Hong Kong Museum of Art, included in the Museum’s exhibition The Wonders of the Potter’s Palette, Hong Kong, 1984, cat. no. 56; a pair illustrated in Chinese Ceramics in the Idemitsu Collection, Tokyo, 1987, pl. 944; one in the Meiyintang Collection, illustrated in Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, London, vol. 2, 1994, no. 895; another published in Chinese Porcelain. The S.C. Ko Tianminlou Collection, Hong Kong, 1987, pl. 103; and a fifth bowl of slightly larger size, in the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics. The World’s Great Collections, vol. 8, Tokyo, 1982, pl. 62.