LOT 44:
An Antique Chinese Yellow Ground Porcelain Bowl with Provenance. Decorated with birds and floral design in famille ...
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An Antique Chinese Yellow Ground Porcelain Bowl with Provenance. Decorated with birds and floral design in famille vert on an egg yolk yellow ground. The interior of the bowl is a beautiful turquoise. Underside with red underglaze TONGZHI mark under the base. Ca. Qing Dynasty, 19th. Century. Size d: 4. h: 1 3/4 in. Provenance: Collection of Edward Hyers Clayton (1886-1946). American writer and missioner. E.H. Clayton and his wife were missionaries of the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society in charge of Wayland Academy, a missionary school in Hangzhou, China from 1912 to 1942. E.H. Clayton wrote a book Heaven Below based on his living experience in China.

