A FINE PAIR OF AUBERGINE-GLAZED BOWLS
Kangxi six-character marks and of the period
Each with deep rounded sides rising from a short foot to a straight rim evenly covered with a vibrant aubergine glaze, the base glazed white inscribed with the six-character reign mark within a double circle, box. 12.2cm (4¼in) diam. (3).
Footnotes:
清康熙 茄皮紫釉碗一對
青花「大清康熙年製」楷書款

Provenance: Rev. Victor Farmer(1898-1977), England
Christie's London, 8 June 2004, lot 459
The Inder Rieden Collection
Bonhams London, 10 November 2011, lot 58.
A British private collection

來源：Rev. Victor Farmer(1898-1977)，英格蘭
倫敦佳士得，2004年6月8日，拍品編號459
Inder Rieden收藏
倫敦邦瀚斯，2011年11月10日，拍品編號58
英國私人收藏

Similar bowls can be found in important museum and private collections. See a similar pair of bowls from the collections of the Hon. M.W.Elphinstone and later E.G.Kostolany, H.M.Knight and the Hall Family, exhibited at the Royal Academy, International Exhibition of Chinese Art 1935-6, London, 1935, no.2626 and no.2632; for similar single bowls see J. Ayers, Chinese Ceramics in the Baur Collection, vol.II, Geneva, 1999, no.195 (A474); and R.Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol.4(II), no.1806.

Compare with a similar pair of aubergine-glazed bowls, Kangxi marks and of the period, which was sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 30 November 2023, lot 2823.

One bowl with a glazing imperfection in the proximity of the rim, approx 1.5cm diam; both with nicks and firing imperfections around the foot rim and base.