A pair of famille rose bowls and covers. Daoguang seal marks and of the period

Each finely potted with deep rounded sides rising to a slightly everted rim, painted in bright enamels with a design of butterflies, bamboo, and ripe bursting balsam pears hanging from leafy vines, the design extended over the mouth rim and into the interior, repeated on the cover, the base and top of the cover inscribed with the underglaze-blue reign mark. 11cm (4 1/4in) diam. (5). Estimate: HK$300,000 - 400,000, $39,000 - 52,000 - Unsold.

Footnote: An identical pair is illustrated by Qian Zhenzong in Qingdai ciqi shangjian, Hong Kong, 1996, p. 235, no. 308, and a Qianlong example without the cover from the Nanjing Museum, is illustrated by Xu Huping in Treasures in the Royalty: The Official Kiln Porcelain of the Chinese Qing Dynasty, Shanghai, 2003, p. 219.

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