Daoguang Famille-Rose Teabowl & Cover with Kugua Vines

A famille-rose 'Balsam pear' teabowl and cover, seal mark and period of Daoguang, with steeply rounded sides flaring to the lipped rim, finely enamelled to the exterior with fruiting and flowering kugua vines entwined around a spray of leafy bamboo and with a hovering butterfly above, the stems extending over the rim onto the interior, the matching shallow domed cover with raised circular knop doubling as a foot when inverted, similarly painted on the exterior and interior, the base of the bowl and the interior of the knop inscribed with a six-character seal mark in underglaze blue, -2, 11.2 cm diameter. Provenance: Hugh Moss Ltd., London, 1 April 1977. A bowl and cover of this pattern dated to the Daoguang period, sold Sotheby's, Hong Kong, 5 October 2016, lot 3673.