清雍正 粉彩梅竹靈芝紋盌 《大清雍正年製》款

reposant sur un court pied droit, le pourtour délicatement peint d'une branche noueuse de prunus en fleur épousant les courbes du bol, les pétales blancs teintées de vert avec les étamines roses à pointes jaunes et les sépales verts et pourpres, une branche de cerisier à fleurs roses lui faisant pendant et s'étendant dans la direction opposée, l'ensemble complété par un champignon lingzhi violacé jaillissant du pied, parmi des tiges de bambou aux feuilles finement dégradées et aux extrémités virant sur le brun, l’intérieur et la base émaillé blanc, marque à six caractères en bleu sous couverte dans un double cercle à la base

William Kenneth Slatcher C.V.O.（1926-1997年）收藏，1958至1961年於北京任職英國高級專員（傳）
此後家族傳承

There is a ca. 9 cm long hairline crack starting at the rim (and with a ca. 0.5cm hairline branching out next to it) and extending diagonally into the well and base (the last 2cm into the base visible on the interior only). There are two minute pin-point imperfections on the rim. There is a minute pin-point imperfection to the inside centre and several minute flaws to the inside centre. There are two minute pin-point imperfections next to the hairline on the exterior. The glaze is a much creamier tone than the catalogue illustration suggests. The enamels are finely and delicately painted in vibrant and subtle colours with great attention to detail. There is very light wear to the enamels and the glaze on the exterior of the bowl.
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The present bowl belongs to a small group of porcelains decorated with variations of gnarled branches of flowering prunus, peach and camellia, accompanied by tufts of bamboo, see, for example, a pair of Yongzheng-marked bowls similarly decorated but without the lingzhi, sold Sotheby's Hong Kong, 29th November 1976, lot 623. The appearance of the purple lingzhi on the present bowl is also rare and appears only on few other Yongzheng examples, compare a large famille rose-decorated dish featuring a purple lingzhi, sold Sotheby's Hong Kong, 15th May 1990, lot 237. A cluster of lingzhi in varying shades of purple are prominently painted on a baluster vase sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 22nd and 23rd March 1993, lot 756.

A pair of Yongzheng-marked bowls of the same shape and size, and decorated with the same arrangement of flowering prunus and plum branches with the same spray of lingzhi depicted in varying shades of purple, are in the Baur Collection, Geneva, illustrated in John Ayers, Chinese Ceramics in the Baur Colllection, Geneva, 1999, nos. A 590 and A 591(Fig. 1), illustrated next to a pair of matching cups, ibid., A 592 and A 593. Compare also with a pair of slightly smaller bowls similarly decorated with flowering plum, prunus and bamboo, sold Christie's Hong Kong, 29th and 30th October 1995, lot 752.