A fine and rare reserve-decorated café-au-lait 'sanduo' bowl, Mark and period of Yongzheng | 清雍正 米黃地堆白三多紋盌 《大清雍正年製》款

Compare a similar bowl sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 28th April 1992, lot 243, now in the Nezu Museum, Tokyo, illustrated in Nezu Bijutsukan zōhin sen:  Kōgei hen / Catalogue of Selected Masterpieces from the Nezu Collections: Decorative Art, Tokyo, 2001, pl. 104. The same technique was also used for a dish of Yongzheng mark and period in the Palace Museum, Beijing, with three fish reserved in white on a café-au-lait ground, illustrated in Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong. Qing Porcelain from the Palace Museum Collection, Hong Kong, 1989, p. 242, pl. 71; as well as a larger Yongzheng mark and period 'hibiscus and chrysanthemum' bowl, also reserved on a café-au-lait ground, first sold in our London rooms, 9th June 1987, lot 298, and later as part of the Meiyintang Collection in our Hong Kong rooms, 3rd April 2012, lot 8.