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A CORAL-GROUND FAMILLE-ROSE ‘PEONY’ Designs of flowers within cartouches like the present
BOWL example first appeared on Kangxi period falangcai wares.
DAOGUANG SEAL MARK AND PERIOD See a bowl of this type sold in our Olympia rooms, 7th April
2004, lot 308. A pair sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 8th
the deep rounded sides resting on a short foot, the exterior October 2014, lot 3636. Another sold at Christie’s New York,
vibrantly enameled with three cartouches each enclosing 22nd March 2018, lot 790, and a further pair in their London
a pink peony against a yellow ground, framed by stylized rooms, 13th May 2014, lot 305.
scrolling leafy vines and smaller blue peony blossoms, all
reserved on a deep coral ground, the interior and recessed $ 15,000-25,000
base glazed white, the latter with a six-character seal mark in
underglaze blue
Diameter 4¼ in., 11 cm
清道光 珊瑚紅地粉彩開光牡丹紋盌
PROVENANCE 《大清道光年製》款
C. C. Lai Antiques, Toronto, 1960s-1980s, and thence by
descent. 來源
C.C. Lai Antiques，多倫多，1960至1980年代，
此後家族傳承

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