A Chinese Langyao red monochrome bowl, Qing Dynasty, Kangxi, with finely veined glaze pooling to white at the rim, the foot interior glazed in white with brown veining, 15.4cm diameterProvenance:By descent to the present ownerCollection of Lieutenant Colonel Kenneth Dingwall DSO (1869-1946)Born in Caterham, England, Kenneth Dingwall was a highly-decorated officer and collector of East-Asian ceramics. He was made a Lieutenant in the Gordon Highlanders in 1894 before serving in the North West Frontier from 1895 to 1898. Sent to South Africa in 1899 he was in action throughout the Boer War, for which he received the DSO in 1901. After a short retirement from the army in 1904, he re-joined in 1914 and was frequently employed as a Deputy Judge-Advocate during the Great War. An active collector of Chinese ceramics, Dingwall was one of the founding members of the Oriental Ceramic Society which formed in 1921. He belonged to the National Art Collections Fund and was the single largest donor to the Victoria and Albert Museum between 1910 and 1937, leaving a further bequest in 1948, and donating four items to the British Museum. Part of his collection was sold at Sotheby's London on 10th March 1933, consisting of 90 lots of mostly Tang to Ming ceramics. 清康熙 郎紅釉盌拍品來源：英國東方陶瓷創始人之一及英國傑出服務勛章持有人Kenneth Dingwall 中校（1869-1946）收藏，其在1910-1937年間為維多利亞和阿爾伯特博物館最大的捐贈人。

filled exterior rim chip approximately 1.2cm long x 6mm hightwo small hair cracks to rim approximately 1cm long and 5mm long