A very fine yellow and green enamelled 'boys' bowl Mark and period of Yongzheng

with full rounded rising from a slightly tapered foot to a flared rim, the exterior exquisitely incised with a continuous scene of boys at play in a balustraded garden, some playing the drums or the cymbals, others simply waving toys, with two pine trees dividing the scene and the swirling waters of a lake beyond, all between a border of lappets at the base and a stylised floral border at the rim, the designs picked out in brilliant apple-green enamel against a yellow ground

The overall condition is very good. The glaze is very glossy and the colours are well controlled. The greens on the actual bowl is slightly softer and less saturated than the catalogue illustration.
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A Yongzheng bowl of this design is illustrated in Chinese Porcelain. The S.C. Ko Tianminlou Collection, Hong Kong, 1987, pl. 103; and another in Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, London, 1994, vol. 2, no. 895.  John Ayers illustrates a similar piece together with a Jiajing prototype of this design in The Bauer Collection Geneva, Chinese Ceramics, Geneva, 1968-72, vol. 2, no. A 166 and vol. 4, nos A540 and 541.

Compare a similar bowl from the Hall Family Collection, sold in these rooms, 2nd May 2000, lot 535; and another sold in these rooms, 9th October 2007, lot 1610.