Lot 92
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A FINE FAMILLE VERTE DEEP BOWL, the conical sides rising to a flaring rim, delicately painted to the exterior with two branches of a flowering peach descending from the rim above falling blossom amidst elegant swirls forming the impression of a stream, to one side a small iron-red sun below the rim, the interior with a winged insect and five petals (hairline crack and associated rim frit chip), encircled Chenghua six-character mark, Kangxi

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A FINE FAMILLE VERTE DEEP BOWL, the conical sides rising to a flaring rim, delicately painted to the exterior with two branches of a flowering peach descending from the rim above falling blossom amidst elegant swirls forming the impression of a stream, to one side a small iron-red sun below the rim, the interior with a winged insect and five petals (hairline crack and associated rim frit chip), encircled Chenghua six-character mark, Kangxi
20.8cm. diam.

Lot Essay

This design is called by Chinese collectors as 'fallen flowers being carried away by the flowing water'. See Chugoku Toji Zenshu, vol. 21, pl. 62 for an example in the Shanghai Museum. A flask with similiar decoration in doucai enamels in the Percival David Foundation is illustrated in the Catalogue, section 5, no.A733.

Cf. a similar bowl from the collection of Paul and Helen Bernat, sold in Hong Kong, 15 November 1988 lot 21; and a similar bowl, formerly in the collection of Sir Alfred Aykroyd and H. M. Knight was sold in our Rooms in Hong Kong, March 1990, lot 565

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