A YELLOW-GROUND 'FAMILLE-ROSE' SGRAFFIATO BOWL SEAL MARK AND PERIOD OF QIANLONG

PROPERTY FROM A TASMANIAN COLLECTOR

well potted with steeply rounded sides and flared rim, the exterior finely decorated with two detached composite flowering sprays, each with scrolling foliate stems, one bearing a large hibiscus bloom and various smaller flowers, the other a peony with smaller flowers, painted in coloured enamels on the pale lemon-yellow ground finely engraved with dense sgraffiato scrollwork, the rim edged in gilding, the interior and base glazed in white, the base inscribed with a six-character mark in underglaze blue, wood stand and box

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18.5CM

• Lot Sold $26,000 (Hammer Price)
• $31,720 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)

Provenance

Helen Ling, Singapore, September 1963

Condition Report

On the exterior the yellow enamel falls just short of the gilt rim revealing approx 1mm of white glaze beneath the gilt rim for approx 8cm around the rim. Two grooved cuts on the edge of the footrim each approx 0.9cm. Four tiny dark specks on the interior. Some areas with slight wear on the gilt rim and a very minor frit. Generally very good condition.