AN EXTREMELY FINE AND RARE FAMILLE-ROSE 'PEACH' BOWL MARK AND PERIOD OF YONGZHENG | 清雍正 粉彩過枝福壽雙全盌 《大清雍正年製》款

Property from the Alan Chuang Collection

AN EXTREMELY FINE AND RARE FAMILLE-ROSE 'PEACH' BOWL

MARK AND PERIOD OF YONGZHENG

清雍正 粉彩過枝福壽雙全盌

《大清雍正年製》款

superbly enamelled in vivid tones of rose-pink, shades of green, yellow, iron-red, brown and black with two varieties of flowering and fruiting peach branches issuing from the foot and extending across the exterior and over the rim onto the interior, one branch with a brownish-black bark and bearing white double blossoms, the other with a brown bark and bearing five-petalled rose-pink blossoms, both with large ripe fruit delicately coloured in shaded tones of yellowish-green to subtle raspberry-pink, depicted in iron red with two bats on the exterior and three on the interior forming the wufu, the base inscribed in underglaze blue with a six-character reign mark within a double circle

14.3 cm, 5 ⅝ in.