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A POLYCHROME, GILT AND CARVED BOWL
Qing dynasty, Kangxi period, early 18th century
9,6 x 20,7 cm
Provenance: Naples, Villa della Floridiana, Museo Duca di Martina, Placido de Sangro (1829-1891) collection.
inv. n. 4916.
The decoration on this bowl combines two different techniques, a carved geometrical ground and the use of painted enamels.
Low relief motifs of this wan type were applied also autonomously during the Kangxi period (see for example the imperial bowl in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, inv. 79.2.506). Bowls for export to Europe with painted and carved decoration together are also known, such as the ‘blue and white’ items in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London (inv. C.941-1910); see also the two bowls with the painted decoration realized with enamels of the ‘Famille Verte’ palette from the Grandidier collection, now in the Musée des Arts asiatiques-Guimet in Paris, one with a Kangxi reign mark (inv. G741), the other with an apocryphal Chenghua mark (inv. G5074), the similar one formerly in the Jie Rui Tang collection (J.P. Stamen – C. Volk – Y. Ni, Culture Revealed, Kangxi-Era Chinese Porcelain from the Jie Rui Tang Collection, Bruges 2017, n. 57) and the pieces in the Porzellansammlung in Dresden, from the collection of Augustus the Strong (1670-1733) (inv. PO 6613-6614).
