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A FINE AND EXTREMELY RARE FAMILLE ROSE BOWL
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    HK$1,500,000 - HK$2,000,000
  • ($194,135 - $258,847)

Sale Information

Sale 2811
The Imperial Sale Important Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art
31 May 2010
Hong Kong Buy Catalog





Lot Description

A FINE AND EXTREMELY RARE FAMILLE ROSE BOWL
YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN DOUBLE-CIRCLES AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)

The finely potted steep S-shaped sides rising to a short upright lip, delicately painted around the sides in soft famille rose enamels with dianthus in full bloom picked out in iron-red and shades of pink and a cluster of day lily buds and blooms, all borne on long stems and veined leaves emerging from the foot and meandering around the side in varying shades of green either side of two exquisitely detailed butterflies in flight picked out in stippled sepia and famille rose tones, the interior with three asymmetrically arranged prunus flowerheads
3 3/4 in. (9.6 cm.) diam.


清雍正 粉彩石竹蝴蝶盌 雙圈雙行六字楷書款

盌直口，弧腹，圈足。盌內壁繪三朵散落梅花。外壁繪石竹花，一對橘紅花兒於枝頭盛開，兩朵粉紅的花開燦爛，與纖細的綠葉互相輝映；一株百合枝葉舒展一側，白色的花及花蕾互相爭艷；兩隻蝴蝶翩翩飛舞。底青花雙圈內書「大清雍正年製」楷書款。

此盌石竹與百合，蝴蝶共同入畫，相互映襯，盌內襯托粉紅梅花，畫面靜中寓動，生氣勃勃，設計清新典雅。

此器源自英國倫敦Bluett & Sons公司。

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Pre-Lot Text

Property from an American Collection

Provenance

Messrs. Bluett & Son, London, acquired by the present owner in 1983

Lot Notes

No other bowl of this exact pattern appears to have been published. Compare with a bowl from the Goldschmidt collection painted with an almost identical arrangement of day lilies and dianthus but lacking the two butterflies sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 13 November 1990, lot 40 and illustrated on the cover; and a pair of cups with day lilies and dianthus emerging from rockwork in the Meiyintang collection illustrated in Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, Vol. 2, London, 1994, pp. 276-277, no. 963.

The pattern on the present bowl appears to be a variation on Kangxi and Yongzheng decoration found on 'poppy' bowls. Compare the spatial arrangement rendered on a pair of famille verte Kangxi-marked bowls of almost identical size depicting poppy blooms issuing from undulating branches either side of two butterflies in flight included in the Tianminlou Foundation exhibition Ming and Qing Polychrome Wares from the Collection of the Tianminlou Foundation, Shanghai, 1994 and illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 6.

Other related Yongzheng-marked bowls decorated with a similar arrangement of flowering 'poppy' branches and fruits or blooms to the interior include one formerly in the Robert Chang collection sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 27 May 2008, lot 1526; and two bowls in the Percival David collection included in the Illustrated Catalogue of Qing Enamelled Wares, London, 1991, nos. 821 and 878. Compare the fine enamelling of the butterflies with those found on a Yongzheng-marked 'butterfly' medallion bowl from the Yuen Family collection, sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 30 April 2000, lot 588.

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