Chinese Imperial Coral Red Yongzheng Bowls

Chinese Coral red Imperial Bowls of the Yongzheng Period are HOT

So hows the market for these little tiny bowls?

Chinese Imperial coral red Yongzheng bowls of the Yongzheng Period (1723-1735) are among the rarest of all the holy grails known in the world of Chinese porcelain collecting. They are also among the most beautiful of any porcelain ever made, regardless of country of origin.

Listed below are several which have come into the market over the last 10 or so years. Remarkable in many ways , not the least of which proves the old admonition "Good things come in small packages", most of these bowls are less than 6" in diameter, the majority are under 5" wide.

YONGZHENG FOUR-CHARACTER YUZHI MARK WITHIN DOUBLE-SQUARES AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)
Price Realized

HK$2,420,000 ($313,243)

Lot Description 3989

Yongzheng Coral Red Bowl, Christies May 30, 2012, Hong Kong, $313,243

The bowl is thinly potted with shallow curving sides rising to a flaring rim, enamelled to the exterior with three scrolling blue peonies enamelled in yellow and red, surrounded by curly leaves picked out in green and yellow, with iron-red and black outlines reserved on a rich coral-red ground. The interior and base are covered in a transparent glaze.
4 3/4 in. (12 cm.) diam., box

Provenance
Sold at Sotheby's London, 6 April 1976, lot 169
Bluett and Sons, London, 25 November 1976
A European private collector

Source: Christies

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A SUPERB Chinese Imperial Coral Red Yongzheng Bowl, April 29, 2001 Hong Kong

YONGZHENG FOUR-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN A DOUBLE SQUARE AND OF THE PERIOD

Imperial Coral Red Bowl, C.T. Loo Collection Hong Kong April 29, 2001, $685,000

The rounded sides of the bowl are exquisitely enamelled in shades of pink, blue, white, green, yellow and iron-red against a rich coral ground, with lush pink poppy blossoms and buds among large curly leaves, finely veined pink and blue peonies, day-lilies delicately shaded in yellow and iron-red, varieties of daisies with bright yellow stippled corollas, and dianthus with serrated petals, all among tall grasses and naturalistically rendered growing upward from the foot ring
5 7/8 in. (14.9 cm.) diam.

Price Realized
HK$5,325,000
($685,700)

Sale Information
Sale 2083
29 April 2001
Hong Kong

Provenance
The Private Collection of C T LooThe Paul and Helen Bernat Collection, sold in Hong Kong, 15 November 1988, lot 51

Literature
Hugh Moss, By Imperial Command, An Introduction to Ch'ing Painted Enamels, Hong Kong, 1976, p. 80

Source: Christies
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A FINE IMPERIAL FAMILLE VERTE CORAL-GROUND BOWL Images
Enlarge Price Realized (Set Currency)
HK$2,079,750
($268,606)
Sale 2177
1 November 2004
Hong Kong

Lot Description 892
A FINE IMPERIAL FAMILLE VERTE CORAL-GROUND BOWL
YONGZHENG YUZHI MARK WITHIN A DOUBLE-SQUARE AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)

Famile Verte Coral Ground Yongzheng Bowl, Sold Hong Kong Novemeber 1, 2004, $286,606

Finely potted and well enamelled in bright tones of lavender, green, yellow, aubergine and iron-red with an abundance of exotic flowers and berries including large peonies, day lilies, camellia and daisies, outlined in black and reserved against a rich coral-red ground, the interior and base with a transparent glaze
4 3/8 in. (11.3 cm.) diam., box

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A FINE AND VERY RARE PAIR OF CORAL-GROUND ENAMELLED BOWLS
YONGZHENG FOUR-CHARACTER 'YUZHI' MARKS WITHIN DOUBLE-SQUARES AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)

Selling Price
HK$11,860,000
($1,531,645)
Sale Information
Sale 2863
Inspired Connoisseurship: Property from a European Collection
1 June 2011

Fine and Very Rare Pair of Yongzheng Mark and Period Coral Red Bowls. Sold Christies Hong Kong June 1, 2011, $1,531,645

Description Lot 550
A FINE AND VERY RARE PAIR OF CORAL-GROUND ENAMELLED BOWLS
YONGZHENG FOUR-CHARACTER 'YUZHI' MARKS WITHIN DOUBLE-SQUARES AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)
Thinly potted with shallow curving sides rising to a flaring rim, enamelled to the exterior with three scrolling pale yellow peonies decorated with also aubergine and blue, surrounded by curly leaves picked out in green and yellow, with iron-red and black outlines reserved on a rich coral-red ground, the interior and base glazed white
4 1/2 in. (11.5 cm.) diam., box (2)

Provenance
Christie's Hong Kong, 28 November 2005, lot 1347

Exhibited
London, Recent Acquisitions, S. Marchant & Son, 2006, London, Catalogue, no. 42, p. 78

Notes on Coral Red Bowls:
Yongzheng yuzhi bowls of this form and design were enamelled with either yellow or blue flowers on a coral-red ground.

Other identical examples with yellow flowers include a pair in the Chang Foundation, illustrated in Selected Chinese Ceramics from Han to Qing Dynasties, Taipei, 1993, pl. 142; a single bowl included in the Min Chiu Society Silver Jubilee Exhibition, Anthology of Chinese Art, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1985, Catalogue, no. 178; one from the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Painted Enamel of the Ch'ing Dynasty, Taipei, 1979, pl. 35; and another sold at Christie's New York, 16 September 1999, lot 345.

Bowls of similar form with blue flowers include two illustrated by H. Moss, By Imperial Command: An Introduction to Ch'ing Imperial Painted Enamels (Plates), Hong Kong, 1976, pl. 77, from the Maze Foundation, together with a bowl with the addition of famille rose enamel, from the Musee Guimet, pl. 79; one from the Shanghai Museum, illustrated in Chogoku Toji Zenshu, vol. 21, pl. 105; a pair illustrated by A. du Boulay, Christie's Pictorial History of Chinese Ceramics, London, 1984, p. 240, no. 4; and another sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 2 May 1994, lot 738.
The famille rose palette emerged at the end of the Kangxi period (1662-1722) and developed further in the Yongzheng period, eventually phasing out the use of famille verte enamels. The present bowl would have been made early in the Yongzheng reign.