ID 861964
Lot 2959 | AN IRON-RED-DECORATED AND GREEN-ENAMELLED DEEP BOWL
Estimate value
HKD 30 000 – 40 000
KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)
The bowl is decorated on the exterior with a fearsome mythical beast and a ferocious eagle in flight. The interior is decorated in famille verte with a floral spray border below the mouth rim, and the base is inscribed with an apocryphal six-character Xuande mark.
7 1/4 in. (18. 5 cm.) diam.
Provenance
The Butler Family Collection, UK
Literature
Sir M. Butler, M. Medley and S. Little, Seventeenth Century Chinese Porcelain from the Butler Family Collection, Alexandria, Virginia, 1990, p. 183, no. 127
Exhibited
Travelling exhibition to 12 museums in the United States, Seventeenth Century Chinese Porcelain from the Butler Family Collection, 1990
Special notice
This lot is offered without reserve.
| Applied technique: | Pottery |
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| Medium: | Ceramic, Porcelain |
| Historical era: | Kangxi period |
| Place of origin: | China, Eastern Asia, Asia |
| Category: | Bowls |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects |
| Applied technique: | Pottery |
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| Medium: | Ceramic, Porcelain |
| Historical era: | Kangxi period |
| Place of origin: | China, Eastern Asia, Asia |
| Category: | Bowls |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects |
| Address of auction |
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