Lot 412
412
PROPERTY FROM A WEST COAST COLLECTION 
AN IMPERIAL FAMILLE ROSE RUBY-BACK BOWL

Details
AN IMPERIAL FAMILLE ROSE RUBY-BACK BOWL
DAOGUANG SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD

With rounded sides and slightly everted rim, the sides painted with four circular roundels, each delicately painted with a hanging lantern amidst antiques, all within a single gilt line and reserved on a sgraffiato ruby ground decorated with lotus flowerheads and formalized floral scrolling, the interior painted in underglaze blue with an octagonal medallion supporting jardinières divided by pendent butterflies, within a double line at the center and four further hanging lanterns in the well below a single line at the rim
5 7/8in. (14.9cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

Compare similar bowls in the Metropolitan Museum illustrated by S. Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1975, no. 173; included in the exhibition, Splendor of the Qing Dynasty, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1992, Catalogue, no. 194; another included in the exhibition, Joined Colors, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington, D.C., 1993, Catalogue, no. 58; and a bowl from the Weishaupt Collection illustrated by Avitabile, From the Dragon's Treasure, London, 1987, p. 42, no. 38