Lot 3675. A fine pair of yellow-ground famille-rose 'flower and wufu' bowls , Seal marks and period of Daoguang (1821-1850). Estimate 600,000 — 800,000 HKD. Lot sold 1,312,500 HKD. Photo: Sothebys. 

each with deep rounded sides rising from a short foot to a gently everted rim, the exterior densely decorated in the famille-rose palette with multi-coloured flowering and budding stylised blooms, including lotus, lily and finger-citron blossoms, all wreathed by curling foliate scrolls and against a bright lemon-yellow ground, the white interior decorated in iron red with five bats, the base inscribed with an underglaze-blue six-character seal mark; 14.9 cm, 5 7/8  in.

Provenance: Christie's Hong Kong, 20th March 1990, lot 662.

Notes: A Daoguang mark and period bowl of this design is illustrated in Hugh Moss, By Imperial Command, Hong Kong, 1976, pl. 8, together with a Qianlong version in the British Museum, London, pl. 6; another was sold in our New York rooms, 18th September 2007, lot 296; a third was sold in these rooms, 11th April 2008, lot 3024; and a pair was sold in our London rooms, 7th June 2000, lot 141. See also a slightly larger bowl of this design in the collection of Simon Kwan, included in Exhibition of Imperial Porcelain of Late Qing, Art Gallery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 1983, cat. no. 42; and a pair sold in these rooms, 29th October 1991, lot 278. 

Sotheby's, Important Chinese Art, Hong Kong, 05 Oct 2016