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A FINE FAMILLE ROSE AND DOUCAI BOWL

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A FINE FAMILLE ROSE AND DOUCAI BOWL
YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

Delicately painted in soft-coloured enamels on the exterior with four floral roundels depicting peony, lotus, chrysanthemum and prunus divided by stylised foliage scroll, the centre of the interiors similarly painted with two butterflies and flowers within a double circle--9 5/8in. (24.4cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

Cf. published bowls of this pattern in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, Kansas City, illustrated in Sekai Toji Zenshu, vol. 12, pl. 64; one in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong, pl. 31; and one illustrated by L. Legeza in the Malcolm MacDonald Collection Catalogue, pl. CXXXIX, no. 378, now in the Gulbenkian Museum of Oriental Art and Archaeology, Durham

A similar bowl from the Paul and Helen Bernat Collection sold in Hong Kong, 15 November 1988, lot 10; another sold in these Rooms, 8 October 1990, lot 504

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