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

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A PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE CORAL-GROUND 'PEONY' BOWLS
DAOGUANG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARKS IN UNDERGLAZE-BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1821-1850)
Each bowl is potted with deep rounded sides raised on a short foot, with the exterior elaborately decorated with three yellow-ground cartouches containing pink peony flowers, surrounded by further colourful floral sprays and associated foliage, all reserved on a coral ground.
4 ? in. (11 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Christie's New York, 26 March 2010, lot 1442.

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Lot Essay

The design of flowers enclosed in cartouches first appeared on falangcai wares of the Kangxi period (1662-1722). An example of a Kangxi mark and period bowl decorated in this style is in the Palace Museum in Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum - 39 - Porcelains with Cloisonne Enamel, p. 4, pl. 2.
Compare the present lot to a Daoguang bowl included in the Exhibition of the Wonders of the Potter's Palette, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1984, illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 104; and another from the Simon Kwan Collection, included in the Exhibition of Imperial Porcelain of Late Qing, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1983, Catalogue, no. 51. See a very similar bowl sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 1 June 2011, lot 3737.

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