AN EXTREMELY RARE DOUCAI 'PEACH' BOWL MARK AND PERIOD OF YONGZHENG

painted with a peach band divided into three sections, each section centred by a red peach bloom flanked by purple branches bearing a pair of red buds and a pair of yellowish-green peaches with red spots on each side, all above a row of overlapping polychrome petals, a further band of blue bats amongst green and red stylised foliate scrolls encircling the slightly tapering cylindrical foot and repeated at the mouthrim, the interior centered with a medallion containing a wan symbol surrounded by three peaches and buds amidst foliage, the base inscribed with a six-character underglaze-blue reign mark within double rings

Collection of Dr. Robert Barron, New Orleans, LA.
J.J. Lally & Co., New York.

Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, London, 1994-2010, vol. 4, no. 1746.

There is an extremely faint 2 cm hairline crack (visible on the exterior) extending from the mouthrim located at about 4 o'clock (based on the image of the interior), a cleaned characteristic pin hole on the exterior, and only a minute area of loss to the enamelling near the mouthrim (green). Otherwise the overall condition is still very good.
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No other Yongzheng bowl of this pattern appears to be recorded. The design is based on a Kangxi (1662-1722) model, of similar form and with a similar peach medallion inside and peach border outside, but lacking the petal band and with different borders in underglaze blue only around rim and foot; for two Kangxi bowls of this design in the Palace Museum, Beijing, see Geng Baochang, ed., Gugong Bowuyuan cang Qingdai yuyao ciqi [Porcelains from the Qing dynasty imperial kilns in the Palace Museum collection], Beijing, 2005, vol. 1, part 1, pl. 32, and The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum. Porcelains in Polychrome and Contrasting Colours, Hong Kong, 1999, pl. 202; another pair of Kangxi bowls is published in Helen D. Ling and E.T. Chow, Collection of Chinese Ceramics from the Pavilion of Ephemeral Attainment, Hong Kong, 1950, vol. II, pl. 104.