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Lot Essay
This rare pair of bowls is delicately painted on the exterior with three fruiting and flowering sprays of pomegranate, lychee, and finger citron, all together forming the auspicious sanduo, Three Abundances. The interior medallion has a leafy cluster of two peaches in shaded apple-green and stippled iron-red.
Yongzheng-marked bowls of this pattern are rare; in addition to the doucai palette, famille rose enamels are subtly integrated in the depiction of the pomegranates. A pair of similar bowls is illustrated by R. Krahl in Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. 4, part II, London, 2010, pp. 271-273, no. 1749, and were subsequently sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 7 April 2011, lot 7. Another pair from the Private Collection of Joseph Lau, Part II, was sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 9 October 2022, lot 3508, and a single bowl from the family of K’ung Hsiang-Hsi, was sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 3 June 2015, lot 3109.
Yongzheng-marked bowls of this pattern are rare; in addition to the doucai palette, famille rose enamels are subtly integrated in the depiction of the pomegranates. A pair of similar bowls is illustrated by R. Krahl in Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. 4, part II, London, 2010, pp. 271-273, no. 1749, and were subsequently sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 7 April 2011, lot 7. Another pair from the Private Collection of Joseph Lau, Part II, was sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 9 October 2022, lot 3508, and a single bowl from the family of K’ung Hsiang-Hsi, was sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 3 June 2015, lot 3109.