Lot Essay
Previously sold in Hong Kong, 13 November 1990, lot 299.
An almost identical pair of bowls was sold in these Rooms, 1 May 1995, lot 669. Cf. also smaller rounded Yongzheng-marked bowls with very similar decoration painted in doucai enamels, one included in the Illustrated Catalogue of Ch'ing Dynasty Porcelain in the National Palace Museum, pl. 100; one in the Nanjing Museum, included in the exhibition Qing Imperial Porcelain of the Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong Reigns, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Catalogue no. 55; and a famille rose jar from the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Kangxi Yongzheng Qianlong, p. 216, no. 45.
This floral pattern continued to be a popular motif during the Qianlong period, and the design was successfully transferred onto enamelled vessels. Cf. a guan in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Zhongguo Meishu Quanji, vol. 10, no. 341; and two other vessels also from Palace Museum, both were included in the exhibition, Splendours of a Flourishing Age, Museu de Arte de Macau, 2000, illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 66, for a teapot; and a hexagonal vase, no. 68.
(US$230,000-280,000)
An almost identical pair of bowls was sold in these Rooms, 1 May 1995, lot 669. Cf. also smaller rounded Yongzheng-marked bowls with very similar decoration painted in doucai enamels, one included in the Illustrated Catalogue of Ch'ing Dynasty Porcelain in the National Palace Museum, pl. 100; one in the Nanjing Museum, included in the exhibition Qing Imperial Porcelain of the Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong Reigns, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Catalogue no. 55; and a famille rose jar from the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Kangxi Yongzheng Qianlong, p. 216, no. 45.
This floral pattern continued to be a popular motif during the Qianlong period, and the design was successfully transferred onto enamelled vessels. Cf. a guan in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Zhongguo Meishu Quanji, vol. 10, no. 341; and two other vessels also from Palace Museum, both were included in the exhibition, Splendours of a Flourishing Age, Museu de Arte de Macau, 2000, illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 66, for a teapot; and a hexagonal vase, no. 68.
(US$230,000-280,000)