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A rare Chinese rice-grain bowl Qianlong 1736-95
A rare Chinese rice-grain bowl Qianlong 1736-95, with an in-curved rim, decorated with six large flowerheads amidst scrolling foliage and other small flowers, the circular body covered with an even blue-white glaze, the base with five collection labels, 21cm wide.
Provenance: a private American collection in California, formerly in the Morgan Collection and the Emily Trevor Collection.
Cf. The catalogue of The Morgan Collection of Chinese Porcelain, New York, 1904, lot II, pl. CXXXII, p.83, no.1343. And also, Irwin O. Christiensen, Chinese Porcelains, National Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., 1947, p.31.