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A RARE AND FINELY ENAMELED FAMILLE ROSE YELLOW-
GROUND BOWL
QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN For examples of similar bowls, but with a typical six-character seal mark, see
A DOUBLE SQUARE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795) one in the Nanjing Museum included in the exhibition, Qing Imperial Porcelain
With rounded sides rising to a slightly everted rim, the exterior is finely of the Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong Reigns, The Chinese University of
decorated with scrolling stems of feathery leaves bearing four large blossoms Hong Kong Art Gallery, Hong Kong, 1995, no. 101, and another in the British
and smaller flowers and buds, all reserved on a ground of lemon-yellow color. Museum, illustrated by H. Moss, By Imperial Command, Hong Kong, 1976, pl.
The interior is decorated in the center with five swooping bats in iron red. 6. Compare, also, the slightly larger bowl sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 10
5√ in. (14.9 cm.) diam. April 2006, lot 1742.

$50,000-70,000 清乾隆 黃地粉彩花卉紋盌 雙方框六字楷書款
PROVENANCE: 來源:
Private Midwestern collection. 美國中西部私人珍藏
This bowl is superbly enameled and demonstrates the height of Qianlong
period craftsmanship. Qianlong bowls bearing a kaishu (standard script) six-
character mark are exceptionally rare and few examples have been published.
One in the Shanghai Museum is illustrated in Zhongguotaoci quanji, vol.21,
Shanghai, 1981, pl. 111and in Chugoku Toji Zenshu, vol. 21, pl. 111; and another
in the Wang Xing Lou Collection is illustrated in Imperial Perfection: The
Palace Porcelain of Three Chinese Emperors, Kangxi - Yongzheng - Qianlong,
Hong Kong, 2004, pp. 158-159, no. 57. See, also, an example sold at
Bonhams Hong Kong, 29 November 2016, lot 25, and one sold at Sotheby’s
New York, 16 September 2014, lot 171.

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