Lot 33. A famille-rose 'Three Abundances' bowl, Qianlong seal mark and period (1736-1795). Diameter 6 in., 15 cm. Estimate 20,000 — 30,000 USD. Lot sold 156,250 USD. Photo: Sotheby's.

the deep rounded sides rising from a short tapered foot, decorated to the exterior with three fruiting sprays, including pomegranate, lychee, and peach, together forming the auspicious sanduo (Three Abundances), the base with a six-character seal mark in underglaze blue

Provenance: John Sparks, London.
Sotheby’s New York, 22nd-23rd September 2004, lot 318.

Note: Compare a closely related bowl in the Wah Kwong Collection, included in the exhibition Ch'ing Porcelain from the Wah Kwong Collections, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1973, cat. no. 106; another was included in the Oriental Ceramic Society of Hong Kong exhibition Ch'ing Polychrome Porcelain, Fung Ping Shan Museum, 1977, cat. no. 86; and a third is illustrated in Gordon Lang, The Powell-Cotton Collection of Chinese Ceramics, Birchington, 1988, col. pl. 16. See also a closely related bowl sold in our London rooms, 12th May 2010, lot 192; and another sold twice in our Hong Kong rooms, 18th May 1988, lot 285, and again, 27th April 2003, lot 197.

A fine 'famille-rose' 'sanduo' bowl, Qianlong mark and period (1736-1795), 15.5cm., 6 1/8 in. Sold for 82,850 GBP at Sotheby's London, 12th May 2010, lot 192. Photo: Sotheby's.

A 'famille-rose' sanduo bowl, Qianlong seal mark and period (1736-1795) sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong 27th April 2003, lot 197. Photo: Sotheby's.

Sotheby's. Important Chinese Art, New York, 13 sept. 2017, 10:00 AM

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A fine 'famille-rose' sanduo bowl, Qianlong six-character seal mark in underglaze blue and of the period (1736-1795), 6 in. (15.2 cm.) diam. Estimate HKD 1,500,000 - HKD 2,500,000. Price realised HKD 1,600,000 at Christie's Hong Kong, 1 June 2016, Lot 3241. © Christie's Images Ltd 2016

The bowl is enamelled on the exterior with three detached fruiting sprays including lychee, pomegranate and peach, forming the 'Three Abundances'. 

Provenance: Private American collection
S. Marchant & Son, London
Collection of an English Lord, acquired on 12 June, 1998

Note: A similar Qianlong-marked bowl was included by The Chinese University of Hong Kong in their exhibition of Ch’ing Porcelain from the Wah Kwong Collection, 1973, no. 106, another example is included by Gordon Lang in The Powell-Cotton Collection of Chinese Ceramics,1998, no. 88, pl. 16; a further pair of bowls of this pattern are illustrated by Torataro Yoneyama in Qing Porcelain in the Seikado Bunko Collection, 2006, no. 43, pp. 54-5.