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A FINELY PAINTED FAMILLE ROSE YELLOW-GROUND BOWL

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A FINELY PAINTED FAMILLE ROSE YELLOW-GROUND BOWL
QIANLONG SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

With deep sides rising to a slightly everted rim, the exterior finely enamelled with a dense pattern of leafy foliate meander bearing six large blossoms and smaller subsidiary blossoms and buds, all in brilliant polychrome enamels reserved on a lemon-yellow ground, with the wufu painted in iron-red in the interior (three hairline cracks)
7 1/4 in. (18.4 cm.) diam., box
Sale room notice
Please note, this bowl has five hairline cracks and not three as mentioned in the catalogue.

Lot Essay

Previously sold in our New York Rooms, 3 June 1993, lot 286.

A bowl of this pattern and mark is in the British Museum, illustrated by Hugh Moss, By Imperial Command, 1976, pl. 6, and by Soame Jenyns, Later Chinese Porcelain, 1951, pl. CXII. Another in the Shanghai Museum with a six-character Qianlong mark is illustrated in Chugoku Toji Zenshu, vol. 21, pl. 111.

(US$13,000-20,000)

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