A CHINESE UNDERGLAZE COPPER-RED ‘THREE FISH’ STEM BOWL

£5,000 - £10,000 £8,190

A CHINESE UNDERGLAZE COPPER-RED ‘THREE FISH’ STEM BOWL
SIX CHARACTER YONGZHENG MARK AND OF THE PERIOD 1723-35

The wide bell-shaped bowl with a gently everted rim, raised on a tall flared cylindrical foot, the bowl decorated to the exterior with three fish, detailed with serrated dorsal fins and club-shaped tails, the mark written to the inside of the stem in a horizontal line, 15.5cm wide 11.8cm high.

Provenance: from a private collection, London; by repute, formerly in the collection of William Green, 1894-1972, former Principal of the Exeter College of Art.

Cf. R Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol.IV (II), p.240, no.1717, for a related copper-red stem bowl also with a six character Yongzheng mark.

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來源：倫敦私人收藏，William Green（1894-1972）舊藏，曾為埃克塞特藝術學院院長。