A RARE FAMILLE ROSE RUBY-GROUND BOWL

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A RARE FAMILLE ROSE RUBY-GROUND BOWL
YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN DOUBLE SQUARES AND OF THE PERIOD

Finely enamelled on the exterior of the thinly potted bowl with three large peony heads in blue, yellow and pink radiating upward from the base, surrounded by smaller floral sprays in brilliant enamels, all reserved on a rich ruby ground of crushed raspberry-red tone (rim chip restored)
5 in. (12.8 cm.) diam., box

Literature

The Tsui Museum of Art, Chinese Ceramics IV, Qing Dynasty, Catalogue, no. 158.

Lot Essay

A smaller Yongzheng-marked bowl with an identical design was exhibited at the Hong Kong Museum of Art, Ming and Ch'ing Porcelain from the Collection of the T. Y. Chao Family Foundation, Catalogue, no. 99, where the design is compared to the pair of Kangxi yuzhi bowls also in the exhibition, illustrated ibid., no. 71.

Yongzheng yuzhi bowls of this design, although rarer, have also been recorded; one in the British Museum, illustrated by H. Moss, By Imperial Command, pl. 5; and another sold in these Rooms, 6 November 1997, lot 910.

(US$30,000-45,000)

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