Lot 384. A fine imperial yellow glazed porcelain bowl, underglaze blue Kangxi six-character mark and period (1662-1722). D. 14,5 cm. Sold: € 8 000 (Estimate €3 000- €5 000). Photo Nagel Auction.

The bowl has deep rounded sides that rise to a slightly everted rim and is covered inside and out with a glaze of soft egg yolk-yellow tone that pools to a slightly deeper tone at the rim.

Provenance: From a German private collection, purchased in the 1970s from Tseng Tung-fa in Stuttgart.

Note: For two other larger Kangxi-marked yellow-glazed bowls of this shape see the example illustrated in the Catalog 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, Taipei, 1986, p. 56, no. 16; and another illustrated by R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. 2, London, 1994, p. 231, no. 894.