拍品专文
A fishbowl of this shape, enamelled with four panels depicting ladies of the court in outdoor settings reserved on a dense famille rose-decorated yellow ground was included in the exhibition, La Cit Interdite, Vie Publique et Prive des Empereurs de Chine, 1644-1911, Mus/aee du Petit Palais, 1996-1997, Catalogue, no. 152. The authors note that the fishbowl, together with its pair and another pair of larger fishbowls, are recorded to have been given as a tribute to the Emperor Qianlong by the General of Guangzhou and the Superintendent of Maritime Commerce in 1745; see also Zhongguo Meishu Quanji, vol. 10, The Crafts, Gold, Silver, Glass and Enamels, pl. 344 for an illustration of the same fishbowl.
Compare a fishbowl of similar shape and size, also painted with a similar dense floral decorated yellow ground, but incorporating large shaped panels enclosing fu characters in archaistic script, rather than shou-character roundels encircled by the wu fu, as in the present expample, included in the exhibition, Art Treasures from Birthday Celebrations at the Qing Court, The Palace Museum, Beijing, Catalogue, no. 64.
(US$35,000-40,000)
Compare a fishbowl of similar shape and size, also painted with a similar dense floral decorated yellow ground, but incorporating large shaped panels enclosing fu characters in archaistic script, rather than shou-character roundels encircled by the wu fu, as in the present expample, included in the exhibition, Art Treasures from Birthday Celebrations at the Qing Court, The Palace Museum, Beijing, Catalogue, no. 64.
(US$35,000-40,000)