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Lot 351
A FINE AND RARE ANHUA CONICAL, WHITE-GLAZED BOWL
Estimated Value:
4.000 € - 6.000 €
Result:
16.835 € incl. Premium and VAT
Description:
China, Yongle seal mark, Kangxi period, ca. 1690D. 22,5 cm
Conical white bowl in ‚bodyless porcelan‘ (tuotai), reffered in the West as eggshell porcelain. On the walls a drafon pattern in anhua technique, on the base a Yongle mark in archaic seal script.
Collection Dr. Heinz Fleischer, Berlin, according to him bought in the 1960s from China Bohlken, Berlin, sold 1995 by him to present owner
Published and exhibited:
Kangxi - Porcelain Treasures of the Kangxi Period, Hetjens Museum, Düsseldorf, June 2015 - February 2016, no. 28
White porcelains with anhua decoration were used at imperial rites connected with Tibetan Buddhism during the Yongle reign. Bowls of that type were found during archaelogical excavations at the imperial kiln complexes from the Ming dynasty, see Liu Xinyuan ‚Imperial Porcelain of the Yongle and Xuande perios Excavated from the Site of the Ming Imperial Factory at Jingdezhen‘, Hongkong, 1989. There is also a specimen in the Percival David Collection in London (Inv. PDF A. 424). From the second half of the Kangxi period, the Yongle ware was succesfully reproduced with a ‚sweet white‘ (tianbei) glaze at the Imperial manufactory. Such Kangxi-period imitations are very difficult to tell apart from the originals. For such a bowl with Imperial reign mark see V & A Museum, London, inv. no. 44-1883 - Fine condition
