A CORAL-RED GROUND FAMILLE-ROSE WATERPOT QING DYNASTY, 18TH – 19TH CENTURY

of hexagonal form, painted with colourful clusters of flowers borne on dense foliage, all reserved against a rich coral-red ground, the interior and base glazed turquoise

The texture of the enamelling of the luxuriant floral sprays and the quality of the coral ground on this rare vessel are reminiscent of that on a series of coral-ground famille-rose ‘floral’ bowls, developed in the Kangxi period and created up to the Guangxu period. A Qianlong reign-marked example was sold in our New York rooms, 15^th March 2017, lot 519. See also a Jiaqing mark and period bowl included in the Oriental Ceramic Society exhibition Enamelled Polychrome Porcelain in the Manchu Dynasty, London, 1951, cat. no. 199, and sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 3rd May 1994, lot 214; a Daoguang mark and period example from the Ohlmer collection in the Roemer Museum, Hildesheim, illustrated in Ulrich Wiesner, Chinesisches Porzellan, Mainz am Rhein, 1981, pl. 138; and a further bowl with a Guangxu mark and of the period, in the Weishaupt collection, published in Gunhild Avitabile, From the Dragon’s Treasure, London, 1987, pl. 29.