Live Auction 19039Sacred and Imperial: The James and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection Part II
A PAIR OF BLUE AND WHITE 'PHOENIX AND BAMBOO' CONICAL BOWLS
Lot 841

A PAIR OF BLUE AND WHITE 'PHOENIX AND BAMBOO' CONICAL BOWLS

CHINA, QING DYNASTY, KANGXI-YONGZHENG PERIOD, EARLY 18TH CENTURY

Closed24 September 2020

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A PAIR OF BLUE AND WHITE 'PHOENIX AND BAMBOO' CONICAL BOWLS
CHINA, QING DYNASTY, KANGXI-YONGZHENG PERIOD, EARLY 18TH CENTURY
Each finely decorated in penciled style with a phoenix in flight opposite two bamboo stalks, the decoration continuing from the exterior to the interior, each base with an apocryphal Chenghua mark
3 7/8 in. (9.9 cm.) diam.

C. T. Loo Chinese Art (successor Frank Caro), New York, 16 March 1957.
The James and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection, Chicago.

Specialist note


A similarly decorated set of four 'phoenix and bamboo' bowls of comparable size was sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 5 April 2016, lot 123.