A FAMILLE ROSE TURQUOISE-GROUND BOWL

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A FAMILLE ROSE TURQUOISE-GROUND BOWL
QIANLONG SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE, AND POSSIBLY LATE IN THE PERIOD

The rounded sides rising from a flared rim, the exterior well enameled in red, blue, pink, white, purple and shades of green with a dense composite floral meander of exotic blooms, including a lily, all reserved against a turquoise ground, the interior with five iron-red bats; together with a pair of famille rose figural brackets, 18th Century, each in the shape of a woman holding a baluster vase up to her shoulder, one dressed in a floral turquoise tunic, with a striped border at the neck and base, the other in an identical dress in green, the unglazed backs revealing a grainy biscuit ware (tiny chips to feet, minor overpainting)
Bowl 7in. (17.8cm.) diam.; brackets 8in. and 7½ in. (20.3cm and 19cm.) high (3)

Lot Essay

Yellow-ground examples of this type of bowl are more commonly found. One is illustrated by Hugh Moss, By Imperial Command, pl. 6, and another is in the Shanghai Musuem, illustrated in Chugoku Toji Zenshu, vol. 21, Hong Kong, 1976, pl. 111

For a pair of closely related wall vases, dated to the Qianlong period (one illustrated), see Sotheby's, London, Fine Chinese Export Porcelain, November 20, 1984, lot 208