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Lot Essay
The combination of gourds (gua) and butterflies (die) represent the wish for endless generations of sons and grandsons (guadie mianmian), a wish reinforced by the red seeds of the ripe gourds.
One of a pair of similar Qianlong-marked bowls in the Percival David Foundation is illustrated by Lady David in Illustrated Catalogue of Ch'ing Enamelled Ware, 1973, no. 897; the other (no. 898) is illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol. 6, Tokyo/San Francisco, 1982, no. 274. Another in the Musée Guimet, Paris, is illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol. 7, 1981, col. pl. 91. See, also, a pair of similar bowls sold at Christie's New York, 17-18 September 2015, lot 2258. Another two similar examples sold at Christie's New York, 15 September 2011, lot 1661, and the same two sold again at Christie's Hong Kong, 26 November 2014, lot 3327.
One of a pair of similar Qianlong-marked bowls in the Percival David Foundation is illustrated by Lady David in Illustrated Catalogue of Ch'ing Enamelled Ware, 1973, no. 897; the other (no. 898) is illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol. 6, Tokyo/San Francisco, 1982, no. 274. Another in the Musée Guimet, Paris, is illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol. 7, 1981, col. pl. 91. See, also, a pair of similar bowls sold at Christie's New York, 17-18 September 2015, lot 2258. Another two similar examples sold at Christie's New York, 15 September 2011, lot 1661, and the same two sold again at Christie's Hong Kong, 26 November 2014, lot 3327.