A CHINESE FAMILLE ROSE RUBY-BACK SHALLOW BOWL YONGZHENG 1723-35 Brightly painted in fine detail...

A CHINESE FAMILLE ROSE RUBY-BACK SHALLOW BOWL YONGZHENG 1723-35 Brightly painted in fine detail with a young woman and three boys seated on a chest beside a massive blue vase, a tall bamboo table and a white cracked glaze incense burner, the borders decorated with three bands of diaper pattern in pink, blue and yellow and with three shaped cartouches with flower sprays, 21.2cm. Provenance: from the collection of John Blakeway, d.1986. Cf. G C Williamson, The Book of Famille Rose, p.100, pl.XXXIII for an almost identical dish from the Martin-Hurst Collection.