Lot 3111. A rare yellow-glazed 'floral' bowl, Mark and period of Kangxi (1662-1722); 12 cm, 4 3/4  in. Estimate 450,000 — 550,000 HKD. Lot sold 500,000 HKD. Courtesy Sotheby's

thinly potted with deep rounded sides raised on a straight foot, incised to the exterior with four stylised mallow medallions divided by radiating cloud wisps above a band of lappets, encircled at the foot and the rim with double-line borders, the interior incised in the well with a further mallow flower, covered overall in a soft egg-yolk yellow glaze, the white base inscribed with a six-character reign mark within a double circle.

Provenance: William Clayton Ltd, London, 16th March 1960.
A distinguished European private collection, and thence by descent.

Note: A similar bowl from the collection of Sir Percival David, now in the British Museum, London, is published in Margaret  Medley, Illustrated Catalogue of Ming and Ch'ing Monochrome in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, London, 1973, pl. A599; and a pair from the Trevor Family collection, was included in the exhibition Recent Acquisitions, S. Marchant & Son, London, 2008, cat. no. 31.

Sotheby's. Marchant – Fifty Qing Imperial Porcelains, Hong Kong, 11 July 2020