CHINE, DYNASTIE QING, MARQUE A SIX CARACTERES EN CACHET ET EPOQUE DAOGUANG (1821-1850)

Yellow-ground Famille rose floral bowls of this pattern on the exterior and with five iron-red bats to the interior, appear to have developed from the Qianlong reign. A Qianlong-marked example in the British Museum Collection and a Jiaqing-marked bowl in the Qing Court Collection. Some Daoguang-marked examples are published including a pair from the Fonthill Collection, sold by Christie's Hong Kong, 1 December 2010, lot 2982; the bowl from the Yangzhitang Collection, sold by Christie's Singapore, 30 March 1997, lot 276; in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, 1982, vol. 11, no. 163; and another bowl illustrated by J. Ayers, Chinese Ceramics in the Baur Collection, vol. 2, 1999, p. 234, no. 338 (A630).