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A FINE FAMILLE ROSE 'PEACH' BOWL
ENCIRCLED YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

The bowl is very finely and delicately enamelled to the exterior with brown and greyish-blue branches extending over the rim and into the interior issuing ivory and pink blossoms, the leaves are in varying tones of green and blue with six ripe peaches in graduated shades of lime green and deep pink, the exposed areas with three bats to the interior and another two to the exterior forming the wufu (original biscuit chip to interior footring)
5 5/8 in. (14.2 cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

Previously sold in Hong Kong, 14 November 1989, lot 315.

Compare with a pair of bowls of the same size and pattern in the Baur Collection, Catalogue, vol. IV, nos. A594 and A595; a single bowl in the Eisei Bunko Foundation, Japan, illustrated in Sekai Toji Zenshu, vol. 12, col. pl. 11; another pair from the Paul and Helen Bernat collection sold in Hong Kong, 15 November 1988, lot 44.

This pattern also appears on dishes such as the example illustrated in An Exhibition of Important Chinese Ceramics from the Robert Chang Collection, Catalogue, Christie's London, 1993, no. 92; and another in the British Museum, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, Kodansha Series, vol. 5, fig. 226.

(US$230,000-280,000)

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