Lot 2587. A fine pair of doucai bowls, Daoguang six-character sealmarks and of the period (1821-1850); 6 in. (15.4 cm.) diam. Estimate HKD 320,000 - HKD 400,000. Price realised HKD 350,000. © Christie's Image Ltd 2008

Each with rounded sides rising to a slightly flared rim, enamelled to the exterior with six stylised upright flower-sprays encompassed by a festooned flower scroll, all below a band of interlocked trefoils on a yellow-ground at the rim, the interior further enriched by a band of florettes and petals within interlinked arching trefoils encircling a single flower spray, box. 

Previously sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 20 March 1990, lot 646.

Note: A similar pair of bowls from the E.T. Chow Collection is illustrated by Beurdeley and Raindre in Qing Porcelain, pl.246; another from the Simon Kwan Collection, included in the exhibition, Imperial Porcelain of the Late Qing, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1983, and illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 28; from the Weishaupt Collection, included in the exhibition, From the Dragon's Treasure, illustrated by G. Avitable in the Catalogue, no.18; and a further example is illustrated in The Wonders of the Potters Palette, Qing Ceramics from the Collection of the Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1984, no.101.  

Christie's. Important Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, Hong Kong, 3 December 2008