A fine molded celadon-glazed 'floral' bowl, Mark and period of Yongzheng | 清雍正 粉青釉浮雕纏枝花卉紋盌 《大清雍正年製》款

Collection of T.Y. Chao (1912-1999).

Sotheby's Hong Kong, 19th May 1987, lot 281.

J.J. Lally & Co., New York.

趙從衍（1912-1999）收藏

香港蘇富比1987年5月19日，編號281

藍理捷，紐約

Ch'ing Porcelain from the Wah Kwong Collection, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 1973, cat. no. 12.

Ming and Ch'ing Porcelain from the Collection of the T.Y. Chao Family Foundation, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1978, cat. no. 56.

《華光艸堂珍藏清代瓷器》，香港中文大學文物館，香港，1973年，編號12

《趙從衍家族基金會珍藏明清瓷器展覽圖錄》，香港藝術館，香港，1978年，編號56

The present bowl is remarkable for its delicate glaze, elegant form and refined decorative details, epitomizing the celebrated qualities of sophistication and perfection in Yongzheng porcelains. The luminous, jade-like quality of the celadon glaze, which is deeply rooted in the ceramic tradition of the Song dynasty, encapsulates the Emperor's penchant for these early wares and his insistence on outstanding quality. An exceptional example of the technical and artistic perfection achieved at the imperial kilns in Jingdezhen, the bowl is endowed with a sense of serenity and sumptuousness with the soft tone of the celadon glaze combined with the carefully molded floral scrolls, further incised in detail. 

A closely related example from the George Eumorfopoulos Collection, now preserved in the British Museum, London, is illustrated in R.L. Hobson, The George Eumorfopoulos Collection of Chinese, Corean and Persian Pottery and Porcelain, vol. V, London, 1925, pl. E 314; one, previously in the Harry G. Steele Collection, is now in the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C (accession no. 1972.43.18); one, now in the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago (accession no. 1924.426), was gifted to the museum from the Lucy Maud Buckingham Collection; and another from the Meiyintang Collection, illustrated in Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. II, London, 1994, pl. 856, was sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 7th April 2011, lot 23. See also one previously in the collection of Stephen Junkunc III, sold at Christie's New York, 21st September 1995, lot 236; one from the Morton and Grace Gordon Collection, sold in the same rooms, 24th March 2011, lot 1146; and a pair formerly in the Sir Joseph Hotung Family Trust, included in the exhibition Qing Mark and Period Monochrome and Two-Coloured Wares, S. Marchant & Son, London, 1992, cat. no. 14, and sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 1st June 2011, lot 3530.