A MASSIVE YELLOW-GLAZED BOWL KANGXI MARK AND PERIOD |

the finely potted deep sides rising in generous flared profile from the thick wedge-shaped foot, applied overall with a vitreous, translucent pale yellow glaze pooling unevenly at the rim and foot to a richer egg-yolk tone, the base white-glazed with a six-character mark in underglaze blue

Collection of Ira (1912-2004) and Nancy (1915-2005) Koger. 
Sotheby's New York, 27th November 1990, lot 30.
Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York, 1997.

The rim with a repaired break approx. 4.5 cm in length with an associated hairline crack extending to the base, another short hairline crack to rim and a chip to the foot.
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Large monochrome yellow-glazed bowls with imperial marks originated during the Jiajing emperor's reign (1521-1567) and enjoyed a renaissance under the Kangxi emperor (r. 1662-1722). A Jiajing-marked example from the Qing Court Collection and now in the Palace Museum, Beijing, is illustrated in The Complete Collection of the Palace Museum: Monochrome Porcelain, vol. 37, Hong Kong, 1999, cat. no. 43. Kangxi-marked versions were produced in two sizes: bowls with a diameter between 12¼ and 12½ inches (31.1 - 31.8 cm), and those with a diameter between 14 and 15 inches (35.6 cm - 38.1 cm). The present bowl belongs to the latter group, which is the rarer of the two. Other bowls of this immense scale include a pair from the Sir Percival David Foundation, now in the collection of the British Museum (coll. no. PDF, A.522); an example in the Shanghai Museum published in Kangxi Porcelain Wares from the Shanghai Museum Collection, Hong Kong, 1998, cat. no. 238; one sold in our London rooms, 14th March 1972, lot 150; an example from the Earl Morse Collection sold in these rooms, 24th March 1998, lot 661; a third sold at Christie's New York, 29th March 2006, lot 515; and another sold at Christie's New York, 20th-21st March 2014, lot 2178. Another of this type from the Meiyintang Collection sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 8th April 2013, lot 2.