Lot 3711. A fine famille-rose and gilt-decorated bowl and cover, seal marks and period of Daoguang (1821-1850);  10.5 cm., 4 1/8  in. Estimate  100,000 — 150,000 HKD (11,496 — 17,243   EUR). Lot sold 187,500 HKD (21,554 EUR). Photo Sotheby's.

he deep rounded sides rising from a short foot to an everted rim, the exterior decorated in the 'famille-rose' palette with three detached fruiting and flowering sprigs, including pomegranate and crab apple, between two iron-red bands of ruyi bands picked out in gilt bordering the rim and foot, the interior centred with a medallion enclosing the corresponding floral sprigs, between two further bands of iron-red and gilt-decorated ruyi-bands, the base inscribed in iron-red with a six-character seal mark, the interior of the cover similarly decorated with a medallion and two ruyi bands, the top of the cover bordered with the respective flowering and fruiting sprigs between two further iron-red and gilt decorated ruyi bands, the finial centred with a six-character iron-red seal mark.

Provenance: Sotheby's Hong Kong, 30th October 1991, lot 280.

Sotheby's. Important Chinese Art, Hong Kong, 07 oct. 2015