A FINE PAIR OF CHINESE IMPERIAL FAMILLE ROSE PINK GROUND MEDALLION BOWLS

SIX CHARACTER DAOGUANG SEAL MARKS AND OF THE PERIOD 1821-50

Each delicately enamelled to the exterior with four roundels containing blossoming trees, divided by stylized lotus sprays and reserved on a pink sgraffito ground, the interior painted in underglaze blue with a central roundel containing a rabbit resting beneath a tree, encircled by four foliate sprays of peony, lily, chrysanthemum and other small flowers, 14.8cm. (2)

Provenance: from the collection of Colonel Geoffrey R Pridham (1872-1951), Royal Engineers, CBE, DSO, who was stationed in Peking c.1900, and thence by family descent.

Cf. The Hong Kong Museum of Art, The Wonders of the Potter's Palette (1984), cat. no.103, which included another pair of bowls of this design; see also Christie's Hong Kong, 1st December 2010, lot 3207.