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Emperor, it remains rooted in Chinese tradition through the choice of flowers and overall design.

Bowls with this motif are known in both blue and white and doucai enamels. See, for example, an underglaze-blue-decorated bowl
sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 29th November 2017, lot 3008; and two doucai enameled versions in the National Palace Museum,
Taipei, one published in Illustrated Catalogue of Ch’ing Dynasty Porcelain in the National Palace Museum. K’ang-hsi Ware and Yung-
Cheng Ware, (vol. I), Tokyo, 1980, pl. 90, and the other in Enamelled Ware of the Ch’ing Dynasty, bk. I, Hong Kong, 1969, pl. 3.

This pair of bowls exemplifies the deft ability of Yongzheng potters to adapt and modify Ming design in a distinctly contemporary
manner. The inspiration can be found in Chenghua mark and period doucai cups and bowls decorated with roundels of fruit and
flower baskets, such as a reconstructed bowl recovered at the imperial kiln factory in Jingdezhen and preserved in the Palace
Museum, Beijing, published in Imperial Porcelains from the Reign of Chenghua in the Ming Dynasty II, Beijing, 2016, pl. 158.

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