A FINE AND RARE FAMILLE ROSE CORAL-GROUND BOWL

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A FINE AND RARE FAMILLE ROSE CORAL-GROUND BOWL
QIANLONG SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

Finely enamelled with three lemon-yellow-ground panels, each enclosing a broad blossoming peony framed by foliate scrolls, connected by the slender stems bearing three smaller blue flowerheads amidst further leafy foliage, delineated in black and in shades of green and whitish-cream
4 3/8 in. (11 cm.) diam., box

Provenance

The British Rail Pension Fund, sold in Hong Kong, 16 May 1989, lot 81.

Literature

The Tsui Museum of Art, Chinese Ceramics, vol. IV, pl. 167.

Exhibited

Splendour of the Qing Dynasty, Joint exhibition by the Urban Council, and the Min Chiu Society, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1995/1996, Catalogue, pl. 159.

Lot Essay

Although this pattern became quite popular in the 19th century, particularly in the Jiaqing, Daoguang and Guangxu periods, Qianlong bowls of this pattern are extremely rare and no other example appears to have been published. An earlier Yongzheng-marked Yuzhi bowl of this design, but in famille verte enamels, from the Stephen Junkunc, III collection, was offered in our New York Rooms, 21 September 1995, lot 200.

For a Jiaqing-marked bowl, see the example from the Weishaupt Collection, illustrated by Avitabile, From the Dragon's Treasure, no. 28, together with a Guangxu example no. 29.

(US$7,000-9,000)

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