Lot Essay
The Chinese term for 'mille fleurs' is jiacai (mingled colors). This decoration can be seen on a very similar bowl with blue enamel Yongzheng four-character mark in the Beijing Palace Museum, illustrated in Falangcai, Fencai: Porcelains with Cloisonne Enamel Decoration and Famille Rose Decoration, vol. 39, Hong Kong, 1999, pl. 15. One from the Edward T. Chow Collection is illustrated by M. Beurdeley and G. Raindre, Qing Porcelain, London, 1987, p. 102, pl. 146. See, also, the bowl sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 28 October 2002, lot 606.