A FINE FAMILLE ROSE BOWL
QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEALMARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
Delicately enamelled on the exterior with a butterfly in flight above flowering and fruiting vines entwined and growing on bamboo branches, the pattern extending over the everted mouth rim into the interior, further detailed with a butterfly
4¼ in. (11 cm.) diam., box
Lot Essay
A similar example is illustrated in the Sun Yingzhou de Taoci Shijie, Beijing, 2003, pl.156.
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