Antique Chinese & Japanese PorcelainEuropean Ceramics & Works of Art
Chinese blue and white bowl, Kangxi (1662-1722), with lobed slightly everted rim and moudded sides rising from a short foot, decorated with fish swimming among aquatic plants, flowers and water weeds, with a band of similar decoration to the inside rim, the central well painted with a large crab amongst further vegetation and fronds of water weeds, the base with a mark within double concentric circles
Dimensions:
Diameter: 20.5cm. (8 1/16in.); height: 10.2cm. (4in.)r:
Condition:
Shallow frits to rim.
Notes:
Fish symbolise wealth in China, as the character yu (魚, fish) is homophonous with yu (裕, abundance).
Provenance:
From the collection of Gottfried Henrich Crone (1884-1961), thence by descent through the family.
Guest & Gray 58 Davies StreetLondonW1K 5LP
