Lot 1114
  • 1114

A famille-rose yellow-ground bowl seal mark and period of Qianlong

Estimate
350,000 - 400,000 HKD
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Description

well potted with deep rounded sides supported by a slightly tapered foot rising to an everted rim, the exterior vibrantly enamelled in varying shades of blue, pink, white, magenta, green and purple with large blooms of peony, chrysanthemum, lotus, hibiscus, lily and camellia with interlocking dense scrolling leafy stems, all reserved on a rich yellow-ground, the interior decorated in the centre with five iron-red bats forming the wufu, the base with the six-character seal-mark in underglaze-blue

Provenance

Sotheby's Hong Kong, 30th October 2002, lot 255.

Catalogue Note

A slightly smaller bowl of this design in the Nanjing Museum was included in the exhibition Qing Imperial Porcelain of the Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong reigns, Art Gallery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 1995, cat. no. 101; another in the British Museum, London, is illustrated in Hugh Moss, By Imperial Command, Hong Kong, 1976, pl. 6.  Compare also a similar Qianlong bowl sold in these rooms, 27th April 2003, lot 190; and another also sold in these rooms, 10th April 2006, lot 1742.