Lot Essay
A similar bowl from the Simon Kwan Collection, exhibited at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1983, is illustrated in Imperial Porcelain of the Late Qing, Catalogue, no. 28
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A DOUCAI 'FLORAL' BOWL
DAOGUANG SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD
Painted and enamelled to the exterior with six stylized upright flower-sprays encompassed by a festooned flower-scroll, all below a band of interlocking trefoils on a yellow ground at the rim, the interior with a flower-spray encircled by a band of florettes and petals within interlinked arching trefoils and almond-shaped medallions--6in. (15.2cm.) diam.
DAOGUANG SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD
Painted and enamelled to the exterior with six stylized upright flower-sprays encompassed by a festooned flower-scroll, all below a band of interlocking trefoils on a yellow ground at the rim, the interior with a flower-spray encircled by a band of florettes and petals within interlinked arching trefoils and almond-shaped medallions--6in. (15.2cm.) diam.