A GOOD FAMILLE ROSE-DECORATED YELLOW-GROUND BOWL

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A GOOD FAMILLE ROSE-DECORATED YELLOW-GROUND BOWL
QIANLONG SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD

With deep sides flaring slightly towards the rim, the exterior finely enameled with a dense pattern of leafy foliate meander bearing six large blossoms and smaller subsidiary blossoms and buds, all in brilliant polychrome enamels reserved on a lemon-yellow ground, with the wufu painted in iron-red in the interior, hair cracks--7¼in. (18.4cm.)

Lot Essay

A bowl of the same pattern and mark is in the British Museum, illustrated by Hugh Moss, By Imperial Command, 1976, pl. 6, and by Soame Jenyns, Later Chinese Porcelain, 1951, pl. CXII. Another in the Shanghai Museum with a six-character Qianlong mark is illustrated in Chugoku Toji Zenshu, vol. 21, pl. 111

Compare, also, the example sold Christie's Swire, Hong Kong, October 1-2, 1991, lot 782