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A famille rose ‘lychees’ bowl
Daoguang seal mark and of the period
Finely potted with deep rounded sides rising
to a slightly flaring rim, the exterior brightly
enamelled in pink, yellow, green and coral-
red with a delicately-painted butterfly in
flight above bursting lychees issuing from
leafy branches next to sprouting bamboo,
the interior similarly decorated, wood stand.
11.3cm (4½in) diam. (2).
£6,000 - 8,000
HK$71,000 - 94,000 CNY56,000 - 75,000
清道光 粉彩荔枝紋碗 青花「大清道光年
製」篆書款
Provenance: an English private collection
acquired by a doctor practising in China in
the 19th century and thence by descent.
來源：英國私人收藏，從十九世紀在中國從
事醫師的祖先繼承下來
As a homonym for establishing a son, lychee
(lizhi 荔枝) is an auspicious motif for the
blessing to have a son in order to continue
the family’s last name. It also symbolises
‘clever’ since the first character of lychee is a
pun on the character 俐(li).
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