A ruby-ground Famille-Rose floral bowl, Caixiu Tang Mark, Qing Dynasty, 18th century. Photo: Sotheby's

well potted with deep rounded sides rising form a short straight foot, the exterior decorated in vivid multi-coloured enamels against a ruby-red ground with four lotus blooms born on interlocking meandering foliate stems, alternating with smaller green- and blue-petalled blossoms issuing from ruyi-shaped heads, the base inscribed in underglaze blue with a four-character hall mark within double circles; 15.2 cm., 6 in. Estimation 150,000 — 200,000 HKD - Lot. Vendu 275,000 HKD

Provenance: Sotheby's Hong Kong, 11th April 2008, lot 2920 (one of a pair).

The pair to this bowl was sold in these rooms, 8th April 2013, lot 3182.

Sotheby's. Playthings From The Collection of Edward T. Chow - Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, Collections -Chinese Art Through the Eye of Sakamoto Gor - Asian Lacquer. Hong Kong | 27 mai 2014 - http://www.sothebys.com/