Daoguang Famille-Rose Balsam Pear Bowls with Covers

A pair of 'famille-rose' 'Balsam pear' bowls and covers, seal marks of Daoguang each bowl with steeply rounded sides flaring to the lipped rim, finely enamelled to the exterior with a fruiting and flowering Balsam pear entwined around a spray of 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 with fruiting vine, bamboo and butterflies, the base of the bowl and the interior of the knop inscribed with a six-character seal mark in underglaze blue, fitted box (4) 11 cm diameter. Other Notes: A pair of bowls of this pattern, from the Percival David collection and now in the British Museum, London, is published in Illustrated Catalogue of Ch'íng Enamelled Wares, London, 1958, pl. 897; and a bowl in the Musee Guimet, Paris, is included in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, col. 7, Tokyo, 1981, col. pl. 91. A pair of 'famille-rose' bowls and covers of this pattern dated to the Daoguang period, sold Christie's London, 11 May 2010, lot 258; and a single bowl and cover of this pattern dated to the Daoguang period, sold Christie's London, 4 November 2010, lot 231