An Antique Chinese Yellow Ground Porcelain Bowl

An Antique Chinese Yellow Ground Porcelain Bowl

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.