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A ‘BONELESS’ FAMILLE ROSE ‘FLORAL’ The present lot is notable for its unique style A RARE FAMILLE ROSE ‘BAJIXIANG’
BOWL of enamelling which reflects the innovative TRIPOD INCENSE BURNER
Yongzheng six-character mark and of the developments and fresh confidence of Jiaqing seal mark in a horizontal line and of
period craftsmen working during the Yongzheng the period
Delicately potted with deep rounded sides emperor’s reign. Decorated in a technique The globular body enamelled with the Eight
rising from a straight foot, superbly decorated known as the ‘boneless style’ for its virtually Buddhist Emblems surrounded by lotus
in the ‘boneless’ technique in soft pastel skeleton and outline-free design, the only blossoms issuing from foliate scrolls all
enamels with two large peonies in blush pink lines incorporated into the composition are reserved against a maroon-ground, beneath
tones with smaller attendant blooms and the lines used to define the veins on the a band of ruyi heads below the neck with
buds, borne on broad leaves furled to reveal leaves and butterflies. Although this technique further lotus scrolls, the pierced upright curved
their undersides and rendered in varying was known in painting, it was not widely handles on each side with further lotus flanked
shades of vivid green, accompanied by two used on porcelain decoration, most likely by yellow bats, the three stoutly rounded
chrysanthemums depicted sprouting across because it was too complicated to use on cabriole legs each with a lotus bloom in foliate
the surface, with a single descending butterfly a mass-production scale. It represented a scrolls, fitted box.
depicted on the reverse. great challenge to the artists as lesser-skilled 27.3cm (10 5/8in) high (2).
18.7cm (7 1/2in) diam. painters would require outlines to complete
their sections of decoration, and if not handled £30,000 - 50,000
£10,000 - 15,000 correctly it would give the impression that the CNY270,000 - 450,000
CNY91,000 - 140,000 piece was unfinished.

Compare with a similar famille rose bowl, 清嘉慶
清雍正 粉彩沒骨花蝶紋盤 Yongzheng mark and of the period, illustrated 紅地粉彩纏枝蓮托八吉祥紋三足鼎式爐
青花「大清雍正年製」楷書款 in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the 礬紅「大清嘉慶年製」篆書橫款
Palace Museum: Falangcai and Famille-Rose,
Hong Kong, 1999, pl.73. Provenance: Christie’s, ‘The Cowdray Sale:
Works of Art from Cowdray Park and Dunecht
See also a very similar bowl, Yongzheng mark House, Cowdray Park, West Sussex’, 13-15
and period, which was sold at Sotheby’s September 2011, lot 237.
Hong Kong, 6 April 2016, lot 3620.
來源：
2011年9月13至15日於英國佳士得「The
Cowdray Sale: Works of Art from Cowdray
Park and Dunecht House, at Cowdray Park,
West Sussex」專場拍賣，拍品237號

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