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Lot Essay
Previously sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 5 November 1996, lot 883.
It is rare to find Qianlong bowls of this type, as published examples are from the Yongzheng period, such as the pair sold in these Rooms, 1 May 1995, lot 669; and a single bowl from the Estate of Gordon Cummings, sold in our New York Rooms, 10 December 1987, lot 275, and subsequently sold again in these Rooms, 31 October 2000, lot 912. Cf. also a smaller Yongzheng-marked bowl painted in doucai enamels included in the Illustrated Catalogue of Ch'ing Dynasty Porcelain in the National Palace Museum, vol. 1, Taiwan, 1980, pl. 100.
This floral pattern continued to be a popular motif in the Qianlong period. Although no other Qianlong-period bowls of this exact type have been published, there are a number of other vessels onto which the design was successfully transferred. A doucai guan in the Palace Museum, Beijing, is illustrated in Kangxi Yongzheng Qianlong, Hong Kong, 1989, p. 216, pl. 45; and two other vessels, also from the Palace Museum, 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 no. 68, a hexagonal vase.
It is rare to find Qianlong bowls of this type, as published examples are from the Yongzheng period, such as the pair sold in these Rooms, 1 May 1995, lot 669; and a single bowl from the Estate of Gordon Cummings, sold in our New York Rooms, 10 December 1987, lot 275, and subsequently sold again in these Rooms, 31 October 2000, lot 912. Cf. also a smaller Yongzheng-marked bowl painted in doucai enamels included in the Illustrated Catalogue of Ch'ing Dynasty Porcelain in the National Palace Museum, vol. 1, Taiwan, 1980, pl. 100.
This floral pattern continued to be a popular motif in the Qianlong period. Although no other Qianlong-period bowls of this exact type have been published, there are a number of other vessels onto which the design was successfully transferred. A doucai guan in the Palace Museum, Beijing, is illustrated in Kangxi Yongzheng Qianlong, Hong Kong, 1989, p. 216, pl. 45; and two other vessels, also from the Palace Museum, 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 no. 68, a hexagonal vase.