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A FINE DOUCAI ‘FLORAL’ BOWL Three closely related bowls were sold in these 清乾隆 鬪彩花卉紋盌
SEAL MARK AND PERIOD OF rooms, one, 2nd May 2000, lot 735, another 《大清乾隆年製》款
QIANLONG one, 28th November 1992, lot 168 and a third
one, 9th October 2012, lot 3100. This lotus
with deep rounded sides rising from a short foot bouquet design was a Yongzheng innovation 來源：
to a slightly everted rim, the interior centred that was reproduced by successive Qing 益清閣收藏
with a medallion of multi-coloured flowers emperors; see two Yongzheng prototypes 香港佳士得 2013 年 5 月 29 日，編號
encircled by a band of diaper cells enclosing red in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in 2017
florets and further wreathed by interlocked blue The Complete Collection of Treasures of the
and green strapwork, the exterior brightly and Palace Museum. Porcelains in Polychrome and
vibrantly decorated with six similar clusters of Contrasting Colours, Hong Kong, 1999, pls
flowers springing from the foot and framed by 224-25; and a pair of bowls from the Edward
interlocked foliate and budding scrolls forming T. Chow collection, sold in these room, 25th
strapwork panels, all below a yellow-ground November 1980, lot 128. A Jiaqing example, in
band of underglaze-blue ruyi at the rim, the the Nanjing Museum, is published in The Official
base inscribed in underglaze blue with a six- Kiln Porcelain of the Chinese Qing Dynasty,
character seal mark Shanghai, 2003, p. 362; and a Daoguang
14.9 cm, 5⅞ in. version, from the Simon Kwan collection, was
included in the exhibition Imperial Porcelain of
PROVENANCE the Late Qing, The Chinese University of Hong
The Yiqingge Collection. Kong, Hong Kong 1983, cat. no. 28.
Christie’s Hong Kong, 29th May 2013, lot 2017.
HK$ 300,000-500,000
US$ 38,300-64,000

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