A yellow-ground famille-rose 'floral' bowl, Seal mark and period of Daoguang

Sotheby's New York, 18th September 2007, lot 296. 

Bowls of this design—decorated in famille-rose enamels on a yellow ground, with five iron-red bats encircling the interior—can be traced to as early as the second year of the Qianlong reign (1737), as documented by the Palace Museum, The Complete Treasures of the Palace Museum: Porcelains with Cloisonné Enamel Decoration and Famille Rose Decoration, Hong Kong, 1999, p. 205, no. 181.

This auspicious pattern remained in production into the Daoguang period. A Daoguang-marked bowl of this type is illustrated in Hugh Moss, By Imperial Command, Hong Kong, 1976, pl. 8, together with a Qianlong example preserved in the British Museum, pl. 6. Another closely related Daoguang bowl is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics: The World’s Great Collections, vol. II, Tokyo, 1982, no. 163. For other examples at auction, see one sold in our London rooms, 13th July 2006, lot 755; and a related example sold in these rooms, 18th September 2024, lot 148.