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

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TWO FAMILLE ROSE 'FRUIT AND BUTTERFLY' BOWLS
DAOGUANG SEAL MARKS IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1821-1850)
Each with deep rounded sides rising to a slightly everted rim, finely painted in delicate famille rose enamels on the exterior with a flowering vine bearing ripe fruit entwined around bamboo, the two extending over the rim into the interior, with a pink butterfly fluttering nearby both outside and in
4 3/8 and 4 5/16 in. (11.2 and 11 cm.) diam., box (2)

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Lot Essay

A pair of Qianlong-marked bowls of the same pattern is in the Percival David Foundation, one illustrated by Lady David, Illustrated Catalogue of Ch'ing Enamelled Ware, 1973, no. 897, the other (no. 898) in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol. 6, Tokyo, 1982, no. 274; and another in the Museé Guimet, Paris, is illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol. 7, Tokyo, 1981, col. pl. 91. See, also, the Qianlong-marked bowl with the same decoration from the Walter and Phyllis Shorenstein Collection, sold in these rooms, 24-25 March 2011, lot 1703.

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