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A Chinese famille verte biscuit-enamelled incised bowl
Lot 56 PROPERTY FROM A GERMAN COLLECTOR

A Chinese famille verte biscuit-enamelled incised bowl

KANGXI (1662-1722)

Closed20 November 2012

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EUR 22,500

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A Chinese famille verte biscuit-enamelled incised bowl
Kangxi (1662-1722)
With steep rounded sides rising from slightly tapering foot to a flaring rim, the exterior finely incised with two striding five-clawed dragons chasing flaming pearls, enamelled in yellow, aubergine, black, lime and green, and glazed on biscuit with butterflies approaching blossoming branches, the interior and base glazed white
14.7 cm. diam.

With label HEIDE HÜBNER WÜRZBURG attached to the reverse.

Specialist note

A pair of similar bowls in the British Museum is illustrated in S. Vainker, Chinese Pottery and Porcelain, pl.154; another pair in the Victoria & Albert Museum, illustrated in Gulland, Chinese Porcelain, Vol.I, nos. 360 and 361; in Sekai Toji Zenshu, vol.12, pl.44; in The Catalogue of The Eumorfopoulos Collection, Vol.5, pl.XXXVIII, no.E200; and in Jenyns, Later Chinese Porcelain, pl. XXXV, fig.1.