12 – M5283
Description
Chinese imperial porcelain lemon-yellow enamelled deep bowl, wan, thinly potted with gently flared rim and straight foot, covered overall in a rich and even lemon-yellow glaze, the interior glazed white.
The base with a six-character mark of Yongzheng within a double ring in underglaze blue and of the period, 1723-1735.
4 ¾ inches, 12 cm diameter.
Provenance & Additional Information
- From the collection of Wallace and Alice Smith, San Francisco, acquired prior to 1971.
- Sold by Bonhams New York in their auction of Chinese Works of Art, 21st March 2022, lot 189 (one of a pair), sold to benefit Guide Dogs for the Blind, San Rafael, The Panda Fund.
- An identical bowl is illustrated by Julian Thompson in Imperial Perfection, The Palace Porcelain of Three Chinese Emperors, A Selection from the Wang Xing Lou Collection, Hong Kong, 2004, 99, pp. 248/9.
- Yellow, huang, is the colour most closely associated with the imperial family in China and is thought to represent the divine mandate of the emperor to Only he was allowed to wear yellow robes, and the colour featured in imperial regalia and ceramics.
- Here, the yellow is not strictly a glaze but rather an overglaze enamel, a more difficult and delicate colour to
produce, a particular favourite of the Yongzheng and Qianlong Emperors.
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