A PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE 'POMEGRANATE' BOWLS

PROPERTY FROM THE TINGSONGSHUWU COLLECTION

细节

A PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE 'POMEGRANATE' BOWLS
JIAQING SIX-CHARACTER SEALMARKS AND OF THE PERIOD (1796-1820)

Each bowl is delicately enamelled on the exterior with a butterfly hovering above fruiting and flowering pomegranate vines entwined on bamboo branches, the pattern extending over the everted rim into the interior detailed with another butterfly (small areas of polish on interior)
4 3/8 in. (8.5 cm.) diam., stand, box (2)

展览

Splendour of the Qing Dynasty, Hong Kong, 1992, Catalogue no. 186.

拍品专文

Cf. a Jiaqing example of this bowl illustrated by Gordon Lang, The Powell-Cotton Collection of Chinese Ceramics, 1988, pl. 106, together with a Qianlong prototype, pl. 90. A pair of similar bowls was sold in our New York Rooms, 1 December 1988, lot 334.