QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)

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A RARE AND MAGNIFICENT LARGE FAMILLE ROSE 'LOTUS' BOWL, GANG
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)
The powerfully potted vessel is exquisitely decorated to the exterior with large colourful lotus flowers amidst smaller flowers and leafy scrolls, all set between a lotus-lappet band encircling the base and a ruyi-border below the gilt mouth rim. The interior and the recessed base are glazed in turquoise.
15 ¾ in. (40 cm.) diam.

Provenance

A private English collection.
Sotheby's London, 13 May 2009, lot 205.

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Lot Essay

Apart from its impressive size and high quality of enamelling, the current large bowl is also remarkable for its rarity, as no other bowl of this exact type seems to be published. The Qianlong Emperor's appreciation of overglaze-enamelled porcelain, such as the present vessel, is well-recorded.

For an example with a similar shape to the current lot, described as an alms-bowl-shaped urn, see a light greenish-blue-glazed vessel in the Qing Court collection in Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Monochrome Porcelain, Hong Kong, 1999, pl. 135.

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