A Pair of Wucai 'Fish' Bowls. Qing Dynasty, Kangxi Period - Photo Sotheby's

each with deep rounded sides rising from a straight foot to a flared rim, painted to the central interior with a medallion enclosing a carp leaping from waves, the well and the exterior with fish swimming amid waterweed and aquatic plants. Quantité: 2 - 16cm., 6 1/4 in. Estimation: 10,000 - 15,000 GBP

PROVENANCE: Collection of T.Y. Chao.
Sotheby's Hong Kong, 19th May 1987, lot 317.

EXHIBITED: From the Tang to the Qing: Chinese Ceramics from circa 618-1850 A.D. from the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Peter Thompson, Hull University, Hull, 1996, cat. no. 100.

Sotheby's. Chinese Ceramics from the Collection of Peter and Nancy Thompson. London | 07 nov. 2012 www.sothebys.com