A FINE FAMILLE-VERTE MOLDED BOWL QING DYNASTY, KANGXI PERIOD |

the deep rounded sides rising from a short, straight foot to a slightly everted rim, the exterior with four famille-verte roundels enameled with varying birds perched on flowering branches all against a crisply-molded wan-pattern ground covered with a translucent green-tinged glaze pooling in the recesses, all above a colorful lappet border, the interior glazed white, the base with an apocryphal six-character Chenghua mark, coll. no. 1180

Matthias Komor, New York.
Collection of Paul and Helen Bernat.
Christie's New York, 2nd June 1994, lot 354. 

Jeffrey P. Stamen, Cynthia Volk with Yibin Ni, A Culture Revealed, Kangxi-Era Chinese Porcelain from the Jie Rui Tang Collection, Bruges, 2017, cat. no. 57.

The bowl is in good condition. A short firing tear to the base of the footring. Overall with minor surface wear and glaze imperfections visible mostly on the interior.
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See two nearly identical bowls from the Grandidier Collection, in the Guimet Museum, Paris; one with a Kangxi reign mark,  acc. no. G741 and another, with an apocryphal Chenghua mark, acc. no. G5074, similar to the present example.