A Chinese copper-red glazed porcelain bowlJiaqing six-character seal mark and probably of the periodThinly potted, the exterior with a red glaze of slightly purple tone, thinning toward the lip, the interior and base glazed in white, raised on a shallow foot, inscribed with the six-character seal mark to the underside.
H: 2 3/4, 6 in.PROVENANCE:Given to the present owner's mother by Joseph Paul Gardner, first Director (1933 - 1953) of what is now the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Mo. They were students together at George Washington Univ. in the 1920s and remained friends until his death in 1972. Gardner was also one of the U.S. Army's "Monument's Men" during World War II.