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A green and yellow-glazed 'birds and peach' bowl
Well potted with deep rounded sides rising from a tapering foot, the exterior finely incised and glazed in green, depicting birds in flight amidst fruiting peach trees and flowering branches issuing from rockwork above grass, below a single green band at the mouth rim, all on a rich yellow ground stopping neatly at the foot, the concave base with a six-character zhuanshu seal mark in black enamel. 12.3cm (4 7/8in) diam.
Footnotes
清嘉慶 黃地綠彩花鳥紋盌 「大清嘉慶年製」篆書款
The design on the present bowl is in direct continuation to similar bowls produced during the Qianlong reign, drawing inspiration from similarly decorated bowls made in the Jiajing reign period; the popularity of the design is further demonstrated in their production in the Guangxu period; see The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Miscellaneous Enamelled Porcelains Plain Tricoloured Porcelains, Shanghai, 2009, pls.86, 108, 113 and 119.
A similar green and yellow-glazed bowl, Jiaqing seal mark and period, was sold at Sotheby's New York, 11-12 September 2012, lot 31; and another was sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 27 May 2008, lot 1774.
盌口外撇,深腹,圈足,腹部黃釉為地,以綠彩繪花鳥紋飾,外底書「大清嘉慶年製」六字三行篆書款。
黃地綠彩,系以氧化鉛為助熔劑的低溫鐵黃色釉為地,以銅綠色彩在暗刻好的紋飾上施以彩繪。其紋飾繼承明代黃地綠彩花鳥盌,其份風格後朝亦有仿製,明嘉靖一例,見《故宮博物院藏文物珍品大系:雜釉彩、素三彩》,上海,2009年,圖版86、108、113及119。
蘇富比紐約曾售出類似一例,2012年9月11-12日,拍品31;另見香港佳士得售出一例,2008年5月27日,拍品編號1774。