Lot 47. A rare massive blue and white fish bowl, Late Kangxi-Yongzheng; 60.6cm (23 7/8in) diam. Estimate £ 30,000-50,000. Sold for £ 47,562 (€ 53,034). Courtesy Bonhams.

Well painted on the exterior in varying shades of blue with four rectangular cartouches framed by a sectional wan diaper ground interspersed with crane and auspicious character medallions reading Fu Lu Shou, the panels enclosing scholars in a mountainous river landscape with pagodas, a mounted rider, groom and attendant, and figures on a sampan with a tall pagoda in the distance, all below a whorl-pattern band below the lipped rim.

Provenance: Bonhams London, 10 November 2011, lot 118.

Note: Compare with a similar blue and white jardinière, 18th century, in the British Royal Collection, illustrated by J.Ayers, Chinese and Japanese Works of Art in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen, London, 2016, pp.198-199, no.405.

Bonhams. Fine Chinese Art, London, 5 Nov 2020.