PERIOD: XVIIIeme
A PAIR OF LEMON-YELLOW-ENAMELLED BOWLS DESCRIPTION delicately potted with shallow rounded sides covered on the exterior with a brilliant opaque lemon-yellow glaze, the interior with a white glaze and the six-character reign mark written on the base within a double circle in underglaze blue Quantity: 2 PROVENANCE Sotheby's Hong Kong, 4th November 1997, lot 1375. EXHIBITED Chinese Art from the Ching Wan Society Collections II, Chang Foundation, Taipei, 1998, cat. no. 44. LITERATURE AND REFERENCES The Leshantang Collection of Chinese Porcelain, Taipei, 2005, cat.no. 38. CATALOGUE NOTE A closely related pair of Yongzheng lemon-yellow glazed bowls, formerly in the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Eli Lilly, was sold in our New York rooms, 2nd June 1993, lot 334. See also a slightly smaller pair of bowls illustrated in Jan Wirgin, Chinese Ceramics from the Axel and Nora Lundgren Bequest, Stockholm, 1978, pl. 58b, no. 78, in the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm; and another pair from the collection of Edward T. Chow, sold in these rooms, 25th November 1980, lot 101.
PRIX: $50000
