A good doucai porcelain bowl with prunus blossoms. Underglaze blue Chenghua six-character mark, Kangxi-Yongzheng period. photo Nagel Auctions

Property from a South German private collection purchased in 1982, from the German Asian Art dealer Anne Roselt, Cologne

Exhibited and published: Exhibition Catalogue of Fung Ping Shan Museum, University of Hongkong: Ching Polychrome Porcelain, 5.2-6.3, 1977, Cat.no. 49

The theme of blossoms floating on water can be seen on a bowl in the Shanghai Museum, illustrated in Zhongguo taoci quanji; Jingdezhen caihui
ciqi (The Great Treasury of Chinese Ceramics; Jingdezhen Painted Porcelain), vol. 21, Shanghai, 1981, pl. 62

Few small burts glaze bubbles or frits to mouth rim, good condition. D. 18,3 cm - Estimate 3 000 €

Nagel Auctions. Asian Art. November 5th 2011. www.auction.de