Daoguang Yellow-Ground Famille-Rose Floral Bowl

A yellow-ground 'famille-rose' bowl seal mark and period of Daoguang with rounded sides rising from a slightly tapering foot to the gently flared rim, densely painted on the exterior with a composite floral scroll of peony, lotus, lilly and hibiscus on entwined stems bearing foliage and buds, all reserved on the rich lemon-yellow ground, the interior painted in iron-red with five bats in flight around the centre, the base inscribed with a six-character seal mark in underglaze blue 18.5 cm. Provenance: Christie's south Kensington, 26 November 1998, lot 526. Other Notes: Compare with a bowl illustrated by John Ayers, Chinese Ceramics in the Baur collection, vol.2, Geneva 1999, pl.338; one in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, published in Oriental Ceramics. The world's great Collections, vol.2, Tokyo, 1982, pl.163; and another from the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, included in Sekai toji zenshu, vol.15, pl. 238-39. See also a bowl from the British rail Pension Fund, sold Sotheby's London, 16 May 1989, lot 84; another sold Sotheby's London, 9 November 2011, lot 472; a pair of bowls sold Sotheby's Hong Kong, 5 October 2011, lot 2069; and another pair sold Sotheby's Hong Kong, 8 April 2011, lot 3075