A FAMILLE ROSE-DECORATED CORAL-GROUND BOWL

DAOGUANG SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1821-1850)

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A FAMILLE ROSE-DECORATED CORAL-GROUND BOWL
DAOGUANG SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1821-1850)
With deep rounded sides, the exterior decorated in famille rose enamels with three large pink peony sprays reserved on a yellow ground within conjoined, scrolling foliate borders bearing blue flowers, all against a rich coral ground
4 5/16 in. (11 cm.) diam., box

Provenance

Christie's, New York, 4 June 1987, lot 312.
Greenwald Collection no. 70.

Literature

Gerald M. Greenwald, The Greenwald Collection, Two Thousand Years of Chinese Ceramics, 1996, no. 70.

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Lot Essay

Other bowls of this pattern with a Daoguang mark have been published: one in the Olmer Collection, illustrated in Chinesisches Porzellan, Roemer-Museum, Hildesheim, 1981, no. 138; one in the collection of Simon Kwan illustrated in the exhibition catalogue, Imperial Porcelain of Late Qing, Art Gallery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1983, no. 51; and another in the collection of the Hong Kong Museum of Art was included in their exhibition, Wonders of the Potter's Palette, 1984, no. 104. See, also, the bowl sold in these rooms, 19 September 2007, lot 423.

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