A Chinese Coral-Ground reverse-decorated ‘Bamboo’ Bowl

The body with deep rounded sides rising from a short straight foot to a slightly everted rim, the exterior covered in bright coral-red enamel decorated in reserve through to the glazed white body with boldly executed bamboo shoots, the outlines of the leaves and divisions of the stems pencilled in iron-red, the interior glazed white, inscribed to the base with a Daoguang seal mark in blue and possibly of the period. Diameter: 18.5 cm.

See a Daoguang mark and period example (Diameter: 8.2 cm) with the same flaring rim in: G.Avitabile, Vom Schatz der Drachen. From the Dragon’s Treasure, Weishaupt, 1987, p. 60, fig. 74.

The design of the bamboo in reserve against a coral ground was used as early as the Yongzheng period. See a Qianlong mark and period example in the Wang Xing Lou Collection, illustrated in Imperial Perfection. The Palace Porcelain of Three Chinese Emperors, Hong Kong, 2004, catalogue no. 38.

Condition: For condition report, please contact the department here.

Provenance: A Swedish Private Collection.