QIANLONG SEAL MARKS IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD

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A Pair of Famille Rose Bowls Qianlong Seal Marks in Underglaze Blue and of the Period Finely enameled with a design of fruiting and flowering vine and bamboo spreading around the sides and continuing over the everted rim onto the interior, with a butterfly hovering both inside and out 4.3/8in. (10.8cm.) diam.

Provenance

Bluett & Sons, London

Lot Essay

A Qianlong-marked bowl of this pattern in the Percival David Foundation, London, is illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, Tokyo, 1982, vol. 6, no. 274; and one in the Musée Guimet, Paris is illustrated op.cit., vol. 7, col. pl. 91. See, also, the Illustrated Catalogue of Tokyo National Museum, Chinese Ceramics, vol. II, Tokyo, 1990, vol. II, no. 660.

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