A fine yellow and green 'boys' bowl mark and period of Yongzheng

the exterior incised and boldly enamelled in bright green against a yellow ground with a continuous scene of eight boys dancing and playing various musical instruments on a terrace beneath pine trees, all between a stylised floral band at the rim and a band of lotus petals at the foot, the interior yellow, the base incised with a six-character mark within a double circle

A Yongzheng bowl of this design is illustrated in Chinese Porcelain. The S.C.Ko Tianminlou Collection, part 1, Hong Kong, 1987, pl. 103; and another is included in Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. 2, London, 1994, p. 231, pl. 895, where it is mentioned that Ming bowls of similar design are known from the Jiajing period, such as the one illustrated in John Ayers, The Baur Collection. Chinese Ceramics, vol. 2, Geneva, 1969, pl. A166.

 

A similar bowl from the Goldschmidt collection was sold in these rooms, 13^th November 1990, lot 50; another in our New York rooms, 24^th March 1998, lot 680; and one from the Hall Family collection was also sold in these rooms, 2^nd May 2000, lot 535.