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THBChinese Export Porcelain Bowl
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LiveMar 5, 2025
Marc J. Matz has been a prominent antiques dealer for over forty years, specializing in works of art from the China Trade, Colonial India, the Dutch East Indies, Japanese Export, and Southeast Asia. Many pieces have passed from his hands to major museums and private collectors. This magnificent single-owner estate collection showcases outstanding examples of the decorative arts from his wide range of interests, including paintings, silver, furniture, Buddhist sculpture, as well as an outstanding collection of Chinese Bencharong porcelain. New England Auctions info@newenglandauctions.com
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Chinese Export porcelain bowl, ca. third quarter 18th century. Attached is a Ravi Y. Mottahedah, collector’s label. Porcelain with Arabic inscriptions from the Koran written in black cursive script alternating with red floral scrolls. Decorated with nine concentric rings of calligraphy. In the center is a so-called ‘magic square’ divided into sixteen compartments. The numerals in Arabic in each column, row and diagonal, add up to the same sum. ‘Magic squares' were believed to ward off disease, and objects decorated with them were therefore thought to have medicinal powers.
Diameter 8 in.
Provenance: from the Collection of Mildred and Ravi Y. Mottahedah. A closely related bowl is in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. That bowl had been discovered inside a ‘treasure room’ at Golconda Fort in Hyderabad and gifted to Queen Mary in 1906; which was then donated to the V&A in 1910.
Literature: Chêng Tê-k’un, Some Chinese Islamic ‘Magic Square’ Porcelain, Journal of Asian Art, Nanyang University,1972, pps.146-160.
Published in Howard and Ayers, China for the West: Chinese Porcelain & Other Decorative Arts for Export Illustrated from the Mottahedeh Collection. London, 1978, volume 2, p. 470, no. 480. Howard & Ayers stated the principle market for this form of bowl, were Islamic-India, Malaya, and Indonesia.
Condition: Some light signs of wear from occasional handling, otherwise very good.
Link to hi-res images:
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