A PAIR OF UNDERGLAZE BLUE, COPPER RED AND WHITE SLIP DECORATED 'PRUNUS' BOWLS
Chenghua six-character marks, Kangxi
Each of conical form rising from a short foot, decorated around the exterior with birds in flight amongst trailing, blossoming prunus branches with relief slip decoration to the blossom.
22.5cm and 23cm (8 7/8in and 9in) diam. (2).
Footnotes:
清康熙 青花釉裏紅堆白喜上眉梢圖盌 一對 《大明成化年製》款

Provenance: Collection of Nicolas de la Mare Thompson (1928-2010) and thence by descent.

For a pair of bowls of similar design but slightly differing shape see Transitional Wares and their Forerunners, Oriental Ceramic Society of Hong Kong and the Urban Council, Hong Kong, 1981, no 187.
Lot to be sold without reserve.

Both with some discoloured glaze speckling to the interior, one more so than the other. Both with a few small patches of retouching at the rim.

One with U-shaped rim section restuck, 8cm wide x 6cm deep max. Tiny rim nibble.

The other with 12cm wide x 5.5cm deep max. rim section broken in two pieces and restuck. Related hairline running to the foot. Further rim hairline approx. 6cm long.