A RUBY-GROUND FAMILLE-ROSE BOWL EARLY 20TH CENTURY

painted in brilliant enamels around the exterior with colourful clusters of floral sprays including peony, hibiscus, exotic lily, chrysanthemum, camellia and aster, all reserved on a rich ruby-red ground, the interior and base left white, inscribed with an apocryphal Yongzheng mark to the base

Collection of T.Y. Chao (1912-1999), and thence by descent in the family.