SEVEN CHINESE NANKING CARGO BOWLS, 1752 SEVEN CHINESE NANKING CARGO BOWLS, 1752 SEVEN CHINESE NANKING CARGO BOWLS, 1752 SEVEN CHINESE NANKING CARGO BOWLS, 1752 SEVEN CHINESE NANKING CARGO BOWLS, 1752

SEVEN CHINESE NANKING CARGO BOWLS, 1752

Reference: ART1007565

Chinese Imari bowls decorated in underglaze blue, and overglaze iron-red with the 'Peony Rock' pattern. Painted with peony, chrysanthemum, bamboo and flowering peach issuing from a rocky terrace on the exterior and a camellia spray in the interior below a trellis-pattern border. On the bowl the original Christie's The Nanking Cargo sale label proving it has been one of 240 bowls sold in lot 3154. Near all the gold and iron-red decoration have worn off. In total 2,779 bowls with the 'Peony Rock' landscape pattern, were sold divided over the lots: 3126-3157. (Amsterdam 1986) 7 by 15 cm.