A Famille-Rose 'Flower and Butterfly' bowl, Yongzheng mark and period. Photo Sotheby's
thinly potted with angled sides rising from a straight foot to a flared rim, delicately painted on the exterior in pastel enamels with a pink blossomed stem extending out towards a butterfly, the interior with two scattered orchids, six-character mark in underglaze blue. Diameter 3 5/8 in., 9.2 cm. Estimation 4,000 — 6,000 USD. Lot vendu: 40,000 USD
PROVENANCE: Sotheby's Hong Kong, 28th October 1992, lot 135.
NOTE: A larger Yongzheng-marked bowl of this type in the Palace Museum, Beijing is illustrated in Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong: Qing Porcelain from the Palace Museum Collection, Hong Kong, 1989, p. 218, pl. 47.
PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF WILLIAM AND JENNIFER SHAW
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