Selection of imperial porcelain over 93 years in three collections

5887 | Kangxi period,Qing Dynasty AN IMPERIAL BLUE AND WHITE‘LOTUS’PALACE BOWL

AN IMPERIAL BLUE AND WHITE‘LOTUS’PALACE BOWL

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Size: D16.2cm

Signed and dated: Kangxi period,Qing Dynasty

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Final Price: RMB 130,000

ILLUSTRATED
Marchant,“The Bertil Högström Collection of Kangxi Blue and White Porcelain”,2011,no.26,p.52-3.
Kangxi Six-Character Mark
Thinly potted with slightly flared rim,painted on the exterior with six lotus flower heads on a continuous scrolling foliate branch,above a band of lappets,the well of the interior with a single lotus flower head medallion enclosed within a double ring,two further rings beneath the rim. The base with a six-character mark of Kangxi within a double ring and of the period,circa 1700.
▲ An identical bowl in The Art Gallery,The Chinese University of Hong Kong,gift of the B.Y. Lam Foundation is illustrated by Peter Y.K. Lam and Cheng Xiaozhong in Qing Imperial Porcelain,no. 19.
PROVENANCE
1. Purchased from Marchant,7th December 1976.
2. Formerly in the collection of Bertil J. Högström,Stockholm,Sweden,collection no. 30.
3. Mr. Paul Lande’s Collection