Rare Imperial Chinese bowl to be auctioned... after its 'twin' sold for £195k. Photo courtesy http://www.kentonline.co.uk

Having returned from his exhibition at Maastricht and the successful Sotheby’s Hong Kong sales last week, Alastair Gibson enclose for your inspection another object which he is involved with as a specialist consultant at The Canterbury Auction Galleries.

This is the sale of another imperial pheasant bowl from the Evans collection (see the sale of the Evans Collection on the 23^rd of May 2012 at The Canterbury Auction Galleries).

The more astute connoisseurs amongst you will notice that the first one was recently included in the Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art sale in Sotheby’s Hong Kong (8^th April 2013) however it was priced aggressively and failed to sell.

The present bowl is being offered for sale at The Canterbury Auction Galleries on the 17^th April by Mr Evans’s son Simon, who had forgotten that he had been given the bowl 30 years ago by his father. 

Rare Chinese Imperial porcelain wucai‘Pheasant’ bowl. Kangxi six-charact er mark and of the period (1662-1722). Photo courtesy Canterbury Auction Galleries

6ins (153mm) diameter x 3.125ins (79mm). Estimate: £100,000 - £150,000

Note: It is rare to find a Kangxi bowl of this design incorporating underglaze blue and copper red within the wucai palette. A very similar bowl of Kangxi mark and period from the Qing court collection in the Palace Museum, Beijing, is illustrated in Geng Baochang, ed., Gugong Bowuyuan cang Qingdai yuyao ciqi (Porcelains from the Qing dynasty imperial kilns in the Palace Museum collection), Beijing, 2005, vol.I, part I, pl.29.

A similar pair of wucai bowls, Yongzheng marks and of the period, were sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 27th October 1972, lot 128.

A similar bowl was sold at The Canterbury Auction Galleries, 23rd May 2012 - The Evans Collection - lot 73.

The Canterbury Auction Galleries. Wednesday 17th April at 10am. Email: auctions@thecanterburyauctiongalleries.com