QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEALMARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

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A FINE FAMILLE ROSE 'BUDDHIST EMBLEMS' BOWL
QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEALMARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
Finely painted around the exterior with the Buddhist Emblems, tied in ribbons and arranged in pairs below iron-red keyfret scrollwork within blue bands at the slightly everted mouth rim, the short foot ring encircled by bands of ruyi-heads and a dotted band on yellow ground
4 1/8 in. (10.5 cm.) diam, box

Provenance

The Rossi Modigliani Collection
Acquired from a private collection, Rome

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Lot Essay

This pattern first appeared on bowls of the Qianlong period and continued to be produced during successive reign periods. A drawing of this design is illustrated by Geng Baochang, Authentication of Ming and Qing Porcelain, Beijing/Hong Kong, 1993, p. 318, fig. 533. A similar pair originally from the Yangzhitang Collection was sold at Christie's Singapore, 30 March 1997, lot 265; and another pair from the collection of Taji Shuichi was sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 1 December 2010, lot 3210.

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