Author: --
Size: D12.5cm
Signed and dated: Qianlong period,Qing Dynasty
Estimate:
Final Price: RMB 450,000
ILLUSTRATED
Marchant,“Chinese Ceramics Tang to Qing”,
May 2014,no. 46,pp. 92/3.
Qianlong Six-Character Mark
Thinly potted with upright sides on a straight foot rim,incised on the exterior with two five-claw dragons in pursuit of flaming pearls amongst flames above crested waves and rocks,all between incised double lines. The underside with six-character sealmark of Qianlong in underglaze blue and of the period,1736-1795.
▲ A similar pair of bowls is illustrated by Peter Y. K. Lam,Richard W. C. Kan and Yao Hok Wa in Shimmering Colours,Monochromes of the Yuan to Qing Periods,The Zhuyuetang Collection,no.135,p.211.
PROVENANCE
1.Formerly in an American private collection.
2.Sold by J. J. Lally and Co.,New York,no. 4714.
3. Purchased in Hong Kong,circa 1975,by repute.
4. Mr. Paul Lande’s Collection