An everted lip, classically shaped bowl covered with a mottled glaze intended to imitate a brown granite with inclusions, the glaze pooling at the foot on an even line exposing the white biscuit at the foot rim, the interior covered with the same imitation marble glaze. 18th C.
Provenance: Hartford, Connecticut
As discussed with respect to the iron rust censer offered here (Item No. ) the 18th C Qing emperors spent significant effort to create porcelain glazes that would imitate other materials. Compare a Qianlong mark and period censer made to imitate gilt bronze, Sotheby's New York, September 21, 2005, lot 120. See a covered box imitating stone, "Qing Porcelain from the Palace Museum Collection", Forbidden City Publishing House, Beijing, 1989, p. 424, pl. 106; a ewer with glaze imitating wood, id. p. 423, pl. 104; a tripod censer imitating stone, id. p. 422, pl. 105; a bowl imitating cinnabar lacquer, id. p. 419, pl. 101; a gilt censer imitating archaic bronze, id. p. 411, pl. 92.
While this offering does not bear an Imperial reign mark, it is an excellent example of porcelain imitating marble and rare.
