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749 A FAMILLE ROSE RUBY-GROUND Kangxi period with pink or blue-enameled yuzhi marks.
‘MEDALLION’ BOWL A group of four of these Kangxi bowls is illustrated by
M. Beurdeley and G. Raindre, Qing Porcelain: Famille Verte,
DAOGUANG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN IRON-RED AND OF Famille Rose, London, 1987, pp. 132-33, no. 189.
THE PERIOD (1821-1850)
Compare a very similarly decorated and shaped ‘medallion’
The bowl is fnely decorated on the exterior with four bowl, but with a Jiaqing seal mark, in the Nanjing Museum,
roundels, each depicting agricultural pursuits including illustrated in Treasures in the Royalty: The Offcial Kiln
planting and ploughing, fshing, and carrying produce. The Porcelain of the Chinese Qing Dynasty, Shanghai, 2003,
roundels are reserved on a ruby-red enamel ground decorated pp. 366-67. See, also, a Daoguang ruby-ground ‘medallion’
with stylized fowers on foliate scrolls. The interior is bowl with the more typically rounded sides and decorated
decorated with a central blossom encircled by peaches, further with mountain scenery, illustrated in The Complete Collection
fowers and interlocked ruyi, and there is a band of fowers on of Treasures of the Palace Museum - 39 - Porcelains with
a continuous leafy stem below the interior rim. Cloisonne Enamel Decoration and Famille Rose Decoration,
4æ in. (12 cm.) diam. Hong Kong, 1999, p. 242, no. 214.
$15,000-20,000 清道光 胭脂紅地粉彩開光山水人物圖盌
礬紅 六字篆書款
PROVENANCE
Bluett & Son, London, 1959.
Wing Commander Whitaker Collection.
The present bowl is shallower than many Daoguang
‘medallion’ bowls, and instead its shape more closely follows
the coveted shallow enameled Imperial bowls from the
(interior) (base)
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