UNDERGLAZE BLUE QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEALMARKS AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-95)

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A PAIR OF FINE FAMILLE ROSE BOWLS
UNDERGLAZE BLUE QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEALMARKS AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-95)
Each with deep rounded sides rising from a straight foot to a flaring rim, enamelled with fruiting and flowering gourds and bamboo growing from the base of the exterior over the rim to the interior below two butterflies
4¼ in. (10.8 cm.) diam. (2)

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Lot Essay

For a similar pair of bowls bearing Qianlong marks in the Percival David Foundation, see the Illustrated Catalogue of Qing Enamelled Wares, Revised Edition, London, 1991, p. 45, nos. 897-898, and Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol. 6, 1982, no. 274. Other examples are illustrated in Selected Far Eastern Art in the Yale University Art Gallery, no. 54, and by G. Lang in The Powell Cotton Collection of Chinese Ceramics, Kent, 1988, no. 90. A pair of similar bowls was sold in our Hong Kong Rooms, 31 March 1992, lot 653 and in these Rooms, 19 June 2001, lot 98.

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