LARGE CHINESE MOTHER-OF-PEARL INLAID 'FIGURAL' BOWL
QING DYNASTY, 17TH-18TH CENTURY
Estimate: £300 - £500
Auction: 16 May 2025 from 09:00 BST
Description
清 黑漆嵌螺鈿人物紋大碗
the steep sides supported on slightly flaring foot rising to wide everted mouth, decorated around the exterior with literati in a garden, interior and base with silver lining
Dimensions
18.4cm diameter; 361g
Provenance
Private Scottish collection, Stirlingshire
蘇格蘭私人收藏,史特靈
Footnote
A Chinese black lac burgauté bowl with comparable garden scene, slightly small in size with 5cm diameter, was in the James Cromar Watt (Aberdeen, Scotland, 1862 - 1940) collection, and currently in the collection of Aberdeen Archives, Gallery & Museums, Object number: ABDMS024055. Another comparable lac-burgaute ‘figures in garden’ bowl of similar shape and related decorations, dated to the Qing dynasty, 17th century, offered at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 07 October 2015, lot 3765.