Lot 180. A pair of café-au-lait glazed ogee-form bowls, Qianlong seal marks and period (1736-1795). Estimate 10,000 — 15,000 GBP. Photo: Sotheby's.
each with deep rounded sides with a constricted waist, supported on a straight foot, covered to the exterior with a café-au-lait glaze, the interior and base glazed white, inscribed to the base with a seal mark. Quantité: 2 - 15.6 cm, 6 1/8 in.
Provenance: Collection of Christina Loke Balsara.
Christie's Hong Kong, 19th January 1988, lot 272.
Exhibition: On loan to the Oriental Museum, Durham University, 1962 - 1987
Bibliography: Laszlo Legeza, 'The Grace of Eighteenth Century Chingtechen Monochromes', Arts of Asia, vol. 9, no. 6, 1979, pp 97-98, no. 14.
Sotheby's, Important Chinese Art, Londres, 09 nov. 2016, 11:30 AM