Bidspirit auction | An Antique Chinese Yellow Ground

An Antique Chinese Yellow Ground Porcelain Bowl - A cup featuring a gilded rim, decorated with auspicious bat and geometrical design in a famille vert on an egg yolk yellow ground. Interior of bowl is a beautiful turquoise. Underside with red underglaze TONGZHI mark under the base. Ca. Qing Dynasty, 19th. Century. Size d: 4 3/4 in., h: 2 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.