UN TRÈS RARE BOL FIGURATIF JAUNE ET VERT - DYNASTIE MING, MARQUE ET ÉPOQUE JIAJING (1522-1566)

A rare and fine green and yellow bowl, Ming dynasty, mark and period of Jiajing.

avec un rebord évasé et un pied droit, finement incisé et peint en vert sous couverte sur un riche fond jaune de deux personnages l'un assis, l'autre marchant, sur une terrasse paysagée sous les pins, un rinceau de lingzhi à l'intérieur, la base circulaire émaillée blanche avec la marque en kaishu Jiajing en bleu sous couverte. diam. 16.5cm, 6 ½ in. Estimation: 30,000—40,000 EUR

LITERATURE AND REFERENCES: Bo Gyllensvärd, Chinese Ceramics in the Carl Kempe Collection, Stockholm, 1964, pl. 842.

Chinese Ceramic Treasures, a Selection from the Ulricehamn East Asian Museum, Including The Carl Kempe Collection. The Museum of Art and Far Eastern Antiquities in Ulricehamn, Ulricehamn, 2002, p. 312, no. 1023.

CATALOGUE NOTE: A similar bowl, from the Riesco collection, was included in the Oriental Ceramic Society exhibition The Arts of the Ming Dynasty, London, 1957, cat. no. 202; another, from the Evill collection, was sold in our London rooms, 30^th November 1965, lot 31; and a third example, from the collection of Major A. J. A. Douglas, was also sold in our London rooms, 13^th March 1973, lot 225.

Compare also a bowl in the Tokyo National Museum included in the Illustrated Catalogue of Tokyo National Museum. Chinese Ceramics II, Tokyo, 1990, cat. no. 316; and one in the Baur Collection, Geneva, published in John Ayers, The Baur Collection, vol. II, Geneva, 1969, pl. A166.

It is interesting to note that the design was later copied and can be found on Yongzheng pieces; for example see a yellow-ground bowl with this decorative motif in green enamels, from the Constantinidi collection, illustrated in Soame Jenyns, Later Chinese Porcelain, London, 1951, pl. LXIX, fig. 1.

Sotheby's Paris. From Neolithic to Qing, Chinese Ceramics from Two Private Collections. 12 Juin 08