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A RARE FAMILLE ROSE RUBY-GROUND ‘PRUNUS’ BOWL A DOUCAI ‘FLOWER MEDALLION’ BOWL
Blue-enamelled Qingyitang zhi four-character mark, Qianlong/Jiaqing Yongzheng six-character mark and of the period
Delicately enamelled around the exterior with gnarled branches of Decorated around the exterior with four medallions of lotus, peony,
white plum blossom reserved against a ruby-red ground. prunus and chrysanthemum in alternating bright iron-red and rose-
17cm (6 3/4in) diam. pink enamels, dividing foliate strapworks, the interior with a medallion
enclosing two butterflies within a double-circle repeated at the rim.
£2,000 - 3,000 22.5cm (8 7/8in) diam.
CNY17,000 - 26,000
£3,000 - 5,000
清乾隆/嘉慶 紅地粉彩寒梅紋盌 CNY26,000 - 43,000
藍彩「慶宜堂製」楷書款
清雍正 闘彩團花紋斗笠盌
Provenance: A British private collection, and thence by descent 青花「大清雍正年製」楷書款
來源：英國私人收藏，並由後人保存迄今 Provenance: a British private collection, and thence by descent
The mark on the present lot reading ‘Qingyitang zhi’ (慶宜堂製) 來源：英國私人收藏，並由後人保存迄今
may be translated as ‘made for the Hall of Appropriate Felicity’. The
studio mark appears to have been used as early as the Yongzheng A similar bowl, Yongzheng six-character mark and of the period, is
period, with examples known in subsequent decades until the illustrated in The Complete Collection of the Treasures of the Palace
reign of Daoguang. For a related famille rose dish decorated with Museum: Porcelains in Polychrome and Contrasting Colours, Hong
millefleurs design, second half of the 18th century, enamelled with Kong, 2007, p.250, no.229; another similar bowl, Yongzheng mark
a similar four-character ‘Qingyitang zhi’ mark to the base, see Rare and of the period, is in the Potala Palace collection and illustrated in
Marks on Chinese Ceramics: A joint exhibition from the Percival Budala gong zhenbao guan tulu, Shenzhen, 2013, p.33. Compare with
David Foundation of Chinese Art and the Victoria and Albert Museum a similar doucai ‘flower medallion’ bowl, Yongzheng mark and of the
London, 1998, p.120, no.50. A similar famille rose bowl decorated period, with the same motif, which was sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong,
with prunus branches reserved on a ruby ground, Qingyitang zhi 3-4 December 2015, lot 469.
mark, Qianlong/Jiaqing, was sold at Christie’s New York on 16-17
September 2010, lot 1487.
For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot
please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue.
