Lot 330
  • 330

Important bol en porcelaine bleu blanc Chine, dynastie Qing, début du XVIIIE siècle

Estimate
30,000 - 40,000 EUR
bidding is closed

Description

à décor de quatre phénix en vol sur un fond de pivoines et rinceaux feuillagés, le pourtour intérieur souligné d'une frise de lotus et rinceaux, cerclé de cuivre

Provenance

Ancienne collection impériale du Vietnam
Hôtel Drouot, Paris, étude Couturier Nicolay, 27 Novembre 1990, lot 81

Literature

This bowl is illustrated in Le Viêt Nam des Royaumes, Cercle d'Art, Paris, 1995, p. 38

Condition

Good overall condition with firing faults as burst and unburst air bubbles, iron spots and pin-pricks especially to the inside.
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Catalogue Note

Traditionally the Empress would require everyone to eat rice out of the same large sized bowl in order to avoid the possibility of individual poisoning.