A RARE PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE BOWLS

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A RARE PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE BOWLS
ENCIRCLED YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARKS AND OF THE PERIOD

Each thin bubble bowl supported on a small foot, exquisitely enamelled on the exterior with one pink, one white and one iron-red poppy blossom, the long fuzzy stems oriented as if growing out of the foot and meandering naturally around the body, the interior of one bowl finely painted with two plum blossoms and a bud, the other with two buds and a blossom, in each case asymmetrically arranged slightly off-center in the well (one with rim chip re-stuck)
3 5/8 in. (9.2 cm.) diam., box (2)

Literature

Splendour of Ancient Chinese Art, Selections from the Collections of T.T. Tsui Galleries of Chinese Art Worldwide, 1996, no. 73.
The Tsui Museum of Art, Chinese Ceramics IV, Qing Dynasty, 1995, no. 149.

Exhibited

Art Treasures from Shanghai and Hong Kong, University Museum and Art Gallery, Hong Kong, 9 November 1996 to 25 January 1997, Catalogue, nos. 56 & 57.
One of the pair was included by Louise Allison Cort and Jan Stuart, Joined Colors, Decoration and Meaning in Chinese Porcelain, Washington, D.C., 1993, Catalogue, no. 42.

Lot Essay

An identical bowl was exhibited in Christie's London, An Exhibition of Important Chinese Ceramics from the Robert Chang Collection, 1993, Catalogue, no. 89.

A single cup of closely related pattern, but with flared rather than rounded sides, is illustrated by Rosemary Scott in the Catalogue, Qing Enamelled Wares in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, no. 821 where she also compares it to no. 878 which is unillustrated.

(US$90,000-120,000)

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