A small famille rose-decorated flower-form bowl, Yongzheng period (1723-1735)
Lot 960. A small famille rose-decorated flower-form bowl, Yongzheng period (1723-1735); 3 1/8 in. (8 cm.) diam. Estimate USD 8,000 - USD 10,000. Price realised USD 15,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2014
The exterior of the delicately potted, petal-lobed bowl is carved and incised with overlapping petals and enameled with three butterflies in flight between branches of peaches, pomegranates and finger citron (sanduo) in white enamel, box.
Property from the Jingwuxuan Collection
Provenance: Carl Kempe (1884-1967) Collection.
Sotheby's Paris, 12 June 2008, lot 87.
Literature: Bo Gyllensvärd, Chinese Ceramics in the Carl Kempe Collection, Stockholm, 1964, no. 870.
Chinese Ceramic Treasures: a Selection from the Ulricehamn East Asian Museum, Including The Carl Kempe Collection, The Museum of Art and Far Eastern Antiquities in Ulricehamn, 2002, p. 447, no. 1048.
Christie's. FINE CHINESE CERAMICS AND WORKS OF ART, 18 – 19 September 2014, New York, Rockefeller Plaza