An Unusual Turquoise-Glazed Slip-Decorated Shallow Bowl

18TH CENTURY

细节

An Unusual Turquoise-Glazed Slip-Decorated Shallow Bowl
18th century
The rounded sides of the compressed body flaring at the rim and slip- decorated with a band of four lotus blossoms flanked by pairs of foliate birds, their tails conjoined to a bat suspending a chime, with a band of narrow petal tips below and a ruyi band above, covered overall with a rich turquoise glaze appearing almost white where it thins on the raised decoration and continuing over the flat base with countersunk center, the mouth rim gilded
5 5/16in. (13.5cm.) diam.

拍品专文

See a very similar bowl dated to the Qianlong period, illustrated in the Catalogue of the Special Exhibition of K'ang-hsi, Yung-cheng and Ch'ien-Lung Porcelain Ware from the Ch'ing Dynasty in the National Palace Museum, National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1986, p. 125, no. 98.