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A FINE FAMILLE ROSE YELLOW-GROUND BOWL

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A FINE FAMILLE ROSE YELLOW-GROUND BOWL
DAOGUANG SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

The rounded sides rising to a flaring rim, the exterior finely enamelled with a dense composite floral meander including peony, camellia, hibiscus and orchid with feathery scrolling leaves, all reserved on a primrose-yellow ground, the interior with five iron-red bats--7 1/4in. (18.5cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

Cf. a Daoguang-marked bowl with this decoration from the Simon Kwan Collection included in the Chinese University of Hong Kong Museum's Special Exhibition, Imperial Porcelain of the Late Qing, Catalogue, 1983, no. 42; one in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, Kodansha Series, vol. 11, 163, and 1977, vol. 12, pl. 163; and one in the Victoria and Albert Museum, illustrated in Sekai Toji Zenshu, Shogakukan Series, vol. 15, pls. 238 and 239, and by Rose Kerr in Chinese Ceramics: Porcelain of the Qing Dynasty, 1644-1911, p. 121
Other examples sold in these Rooms, 23 March 1993, lot 761; and 20 March 1990, lot 664

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