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Lot Essay
Each bowl is delicately enamelled with fruiting and flowering melon vine and bamboo which continue over the rim into the interior. The ripe melons burst open to show the red seeds, with a pink butterfly in flight.
Compare to a very similar bowl from the Nanjing Museum, illustrated in Treasures in the Royalty – the Official Kiln Porcelain of the Chinese Qing Dynasty, Shanghai, 2003, p.218. A pair of bowls previously from Sir Percival David Collection, now in the British Museum and illustrated by Rosemary Scott, Illustrated Catalogue of Qing Enamelled Ware in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, London, 1991, no.898.
Compare to a very similar bowl from the Nanjing Museum, illustrated in Treasures in the Royalty – the Official Kiln Porcelain of the Chinese Qing Dynasty, Shanghai, 2003, p.218. A pair of bowls previously from Sir Percival David Collection, now in the British Museum and illustrated by Rosemary Scott, Illustrated Catalogue of Qing Enamelled Ware in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, London, 1991, no.898.