A FAMILLE ROSE AND DOUCAI CONICAL BOWL

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A FAMILLE ROSE AND DOUCAI CONICAL BOWL
ENCIRCLED YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

Finely and delicately enamelled in soft-tones on the exterior with four floral medallions depicting peony, lotus, chrysanthemum and prunus divided by stylised foliage scroll, the centre of the interior with a medallion containing two elaborate butterflies and flowers medallions, the rim bound in metal
8 7/8 in. (22.3 cm.) diam., box

Lot Essay

Previously sold in these Rooms, 29 September 1992, lot 562.

An identical bowl in the Palace Museum, Beijing is illustrated in Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong, pl. 31, p. 202; one in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, Kansas City, is illustrated in Sekai Toji Zenshu, vol. 12, pl. 64 bottom; and one in the Gulbenkian Museum of Oriental Art and Archaeology, University of Durham, is illustrated by Legeza in the Malcolm MacDonald Collection, Catalogue, pl. CXXXIX, no. 378. The Chang Foundation has another similar bowl included in Selected Chinese Ceramics from Han to Qing Dynasties, pl. 141.

A bowl in the Roemer Museum, Hildesheim, pencilled with this decoration but lacking enamels is illustrated in the Ohlmer Collection Catalogue, no. 45, where Wiesner records a doucai example in the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Two bowls of this design were sold in these Rooms, 8 October 1990, lot 504; and 2 May 1994, lot 690.

(US$40,000-50,000)

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