A RARE TURQUOISE-GLAZED BOWL, YONGZHENG MARK AND PERIOD | 清雍正 松石綠釉盌 《大清雍正年製》款

Monochrome Ceramics of Ming and Ch’ing Dynasties, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1977, cat. no. 55.

Exhibition of Ancient Chinese Ceramics from the Collection of the Kau Chi Society of Chinese Art, Art Gallery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 1981, cat. no. 137.

Zhongguo mingtao riben xunhui zhan. Gangtai mingjia shoucang taoci jingpin [Exhibition of Famous Chinese Ceramics Touring Japan. Fine Ceramics from Private Hong Kong and Taiwanese Collections], Nihonbashi Takashimaya, Tokyo, 1992, p. 181.

《明清一色釉瓷》，敏求精舍，香港藝術館，香港，1977年，編號55

《求知雅集珍藏•中國古陶瓷展》，香港中文大學文物館，香港，1981年，編號137

《中國名陶日本巡迴展•港台名家收藏陶瓷精品》，日本橋高島屋，東京，1992年，第181頁

This charming bowl belongs to select group of exquisitely potted hemispherical bowls covered in vivid pastel enamels and made in the Yongzheng period. Known also in lemon yellow, rose-pink, coral red and lime green, examples covered in this striking turquoise glaze are unusual. This enamel colour was first developed during the Yongzheng period and was achieved by adding an opaque white enamel to the glaze mixture.

A closely related bowl in the Fondation Baur, Geneva, is illustrated in John Ayers, The Baur Collection Geneva. Chinese Ceramics, Geneva, 1972, vol. III, pl. A478; another in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (accession no.09.194.23), is published in Suzanne G. Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1989, pl. 257; a third, from the collection of Emily Trevor and the Meiyintang collection, was sold at Christie’s New York in 2007, and in our Hong Kong rooms, 4^th April 2012, lot 2; and its pair was sold in these rooms, 7^th November 2012, lot 270