/https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F100183.jpg)
/https%3A%2F%2Fstorage.canalblog.com%2F03%2F02%2F119589%2F96711876_o.jpg)
/https%3A%2F%2Fstorage.canalblog.com%2F11%2F31%2F119589%2F94773502_o.jpg)
/https%3A%2F%2Fstorage.canalblog.com%2F20%2F83%2F119589%2F94772815_o.jpg)
/https%3A%2F%2Fstorage.canalblog.com%2F26%2F72%2F119589%2F75604929_o.jpg)
/https%3A%2F%2Fstorage.canalblog.com%2F59%2F60%2F119589%2F26458628_o.jpg)
Two doucai 'butterflies and flowers' medallion bowls, marks and period of Yongzheng (1723-1735)
Lot 3161. A doucai 'butterflies and flowers' medallion bowl, mark and period of Yongzheng (1723-1735); 22.4 cm., 8 3/4 in. Estimate 300,000 — 500,000 HKD. Lot Sold 524,000 HKD. Courtesy Sotheby's.
of conical form with straight flared sides, the centre of the interior finely painted with a pair of flying butterflies, the exterior similarly decorated with four floral medallions, depicting peonies, lotus, chrysanthemums and plum blossoms, all surrounded by stylised floral scrolls, the countersunk base inscribed in underglaze blue with a six-character reign mark.
Provenance: Rare Art, New York (according to label on the other bowl of the pair, see lot 3163).
Lot 3163. A doucai 'butterflies and flowers' medallion bowl, mark and period of Yongzheng (1723-1735); 22.4 cm., 8 3/4 in. Estimate 300,000 — 500,000 HKD. Lot Sold 524,000 HKD. Courtesy Sotheby's.
of conical form with straight flared sides, the centre of the interior finely painted with a pair of flying butterflies, the exterior similarly decorated with four floral medallions, depicting peonies, lotus, chrysanthemums and plum blossoms, all surrounded by stylised floral scrolls, the countersunk base inscribed in underglaze blue with a six-character reign mark.
Provenance: Rare Art, New York (according to label on the other bowl of the pair, see lot 3161).
Note: Aclosely related bowl in the Palace Museum, Beijing, is illustrated in Kangxi. Yongzheng. Qianlong. Qing Porcelain from the Palace Museum Collection, Hong Kong, 1989, p. 202, pl. 31; and another in the William Nelson Gallery of Art, Kansas City, is published in Sekai toji zenshu, vol. 12, Tokyo, 1956, pl. 63 (bottom). See also a bowl in the Gulbenkian Museum of Oriental Art and Archaeology at the University of Durham, included in Ireneus Laszlo Legeza, A Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue of the Malcolm Macdonald Collection of Chinese Ceramics, London, 1972, pl. CXXXIX; and two examples sold in these rooms, one from the Paul and Helen Bernat collection, 15th November 1988, lot 10, and the other, 11th April 2008, lot 2969.
Hugh Moss notes in By Imperial Command, Hong Kong, 1976, p. 74, that the 'circular panel of decoration, the subject of which defines its own limits' is first seen on wares of the Kangxi yuzhi group and later incorporated into the Yongzheng repertoire at Jingdezhen.
Sotheby's. Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, Hong Kong, 08 april 2011
/image%2F1371349%2F20240508%2Fob_7c1cc0_telechargement.jpg)
/image%2F1371349%2F20240506%2Fob_36628e_441872311-1664587794311233-44113204621.jpg)
/image%2F1371349%2F20240326%2Fob_936d86_104-1.jpg)
/image%2F1371349%2F20240326%2Fob_823710_102-1.jpg)