Bowl with rounded sides and a wide flaring rim, standing on a short, straight foot ring. The exterior is decorated on the biscuit with green, yellow and aubergine-purple enamels in a loose “egg-and-spinach” pattern.
A large Chinese bowl decorated with famille verte enamels on the biscuit. Kangxi period.
COUNTRY : China
PERIOD : kangxi (1662-1722)
MATIERIAL : Porcelain
SIZE : 7.67 in. (19.5 cm)
REFERENCE : B500
STATUT : sold
related works
Severals bowls from this group, with different glaze are illustrated by Luisa Vinhais and Jorge Welsh in Biscuit: Refined Chinese Famille Verte Wares, Jorge Welsh Books, London and Lisbon, October, 2012, pp. 67-73.
Further information
The present bowl belongs to a group of bowls with several different shapes, usually generically describes as “Brinjal” bowls. Most of these bowls have a shop or maker’s mark in underglaze blue on the base, with appears frequently on export wares from the late Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) onwards. By reference to a single yellow-ground example with a Tianqi reign mark (1621-1627) in the Avery Brundage Collection, historian Stephen Little asserts that the whole group might be dated to the earlier Transitional period.
