Property from an Important Hong Kong Private Collection
A pair of blue and white 'lotus' bowls, Marks and period of Kangxi
Auction Closed
November 5, 05:06 PM GMT
Estimate
20,000 - 40,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
the base of each with a six-character mark in underglaze blue within a double circle (2)
Diameter 16.2 cm, 6⅜ in.
Imperial Oriental Art, New York, December 2002.
Christie's New York, 20th September 2013, lot 1384.
The present pair of bowls represents a finely executed example of a classic imperial design of the Kangxi period (1662–1722). Compare a similar bowl preserved in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Blue and White Wares of the Ch’ing Dynasty, vol. I, Hong Kong, 1968, pl. 12; and another in the Art Gallery of The Chinese University of Hong Kong, gifted by the B.Y. Lam Foundation, published in Peter Y.K. Lam and Cheng Xiaozhong, Qing Imperial Porcelain of the Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong Reigns, Hong Kong, 1995, pl. 19. See also a pair of bowls included by S. Marchant & Son in their exhibition Qing Mark & Period Blue and White, London, 1994, cat. no. 4; a pair sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 25th November 2022, lot 306; and another pair sold in the same rooms, 11th July 2020, lot 3642.