Edward Luper
Specialist, Chinese Works of Art
Lot 15
A yellow and green-enamelled 'peaches' bowl Kangxi six-character mark and of the period
10 November 2016, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond StreetSold for £5,000 inc. premium
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A yellow and green-enamelled 'peaches' bowl
Kangxi six-character mark and of the period
Finely enamelled around the exterior in emerald-green with eight peaches issuing upright from leafy stems radiating from a ruyi border, all beneath a floret diaper band at the rim, the interior with a roundel enclosing a coiling scaly five-clawed dragon amidst flames in pursuit of a flaming pearl, all reserved on a lemon-yellow ground, the mark in brown within a double circle. 11.5cm (4 1/2in) diam.
Finely enamelled around the exterior in emerald-green with eight peaches issuing upright from leafy stems radiating from a ruyi border, all beneath a floret diaper band at the rim, the interior with a roundel enclosing a coiling scaly five-clawed dragon amidst flames in pursuit of a flaming pearl, all reserved on a lemon-yellow ground, the mark in brown within a double circle. 11.5cm (4 1/2in) diam.
Footnotes
清康熙 黃地綠彩折枝桃紋盌
褐彩「大清康熙年製」楷書款
Provenance: a distinguished English private collection, and thence by descent
來源： 顯貴英國私人收藏，並由後人保存迄今
Compare a yellow and green-enamelled bowl, Kangxi six-character mark and of the period, in the Nanjing Museum, illustrated in Treasures in the Royalty: The Official Kiln Porcelain of the Chinese Qing Dynasty, Shanghai, 2003, p.59. A similar pair of bowls, Kangxi six-character marks and of the period, was sold at Sotheby's New York on 19-20 March 2013, lot 181.
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