FINE AND RARE FAMILLE ROSE YELLOW-GROUND BOWL, QIANLONG SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

FINE AND RARE FAMILLE ROSE YELLOW-GROUND BOWL, QIANLONG SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD, the gently-rounded and flared body with an everted lip, the exterior finely enamelled with a continuous exotic flower meander, showing four larger flower heads amongst smaller blossoms and leafy tendrils, the interior painted with five bats in iron red, 15cm diam Provenance: Marchant & Son, London, November 1998. Note: this fine bowl belongs to a rare group of yellow-ground floral-decorated bowls, all painted with a very similar design to the exterior and five bats to the interior. They originated in the Qianlong period and continued being made in the Jiaqing and Daoguang reigns. A Qianlong example in the British Museum is illustrated in Moss, H., By Imperial Command, Hong Kong, 1976, pl.6. Another Qianlong bowl with a kaishu script mark was sold by Nagel Auctions, 3rd November 2011. Jiaqing examples include a bowl from the British Rail Pension Fund Collection, sold by Sotheby's, 16th May 1989, lot 83; and another illustrated in in Porcelains with Cloisonne Enamel Decoration and Famille Rose Decoration, The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, p.205, no.181. For a Daoguang example see Ayers, J., Chinese Ceramics in the Baur Collection, vol.2, 1999, p.234, no.338.