清雍正 粉彩「蝶戀花」圖撇口盌一對 《大清雍正年製》款

each finely potted with deep rounded sides rising from a straight foot to a flared rim, painted on the interior with one or two pale-green orchid blooms and loose petals, naturalistically placed as if they had fallen into the bowl, the exterior decorated with a large peony with lush pink, white and pale green petals, flanked by two pink roses and two buds on a long thorny stalk, and blue-petalled asters growing by a decorative garden rock, the veined leaves rendered in tones of light and dark green and the rock coloured in shades of blue, with a small fly hovering above at the rim and two multi-coloured butterflies fluttering on the reverse, the base inscribed in underglaze blue with a six-character reign mark written in three columns within double circles

香港蘇富比2008年4月11日，編號2901 及 2902

The two bowls are in overall good condition and the enamels well preserved. There are a couple shallow nicks to the footring of both. Each has one or two small firing lines beneath the glaze on the foot, the longest approx 0.4cm. One has a small original firing flaw to the rim, the other a tiny nick, each cleverly painted over with a bug. There are tiny burst air bubbles to the green enamel on the orchid blooms leaves on the interiors. The colours of the two bowls are well matching and comparable to the catalogue illustration.
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These bowls belong to a distinctive group of Yongzheng famille-rose porcelains painted with floral motifs, often with prominent use of blue enamel, and with the mark written in three vertical columns. A similar pair of bowls from the Meiyintang Collection, illustrated in Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, London, 1994-2010, vol. 2, no. 964, was sold in these rooms, 8th April 2013, lot 13. A famille-rose dish with a similar mark in the Palace Museum, Beijing, is published in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum. Porcelains with Cloisonné Enamel Decoration and Famille Rose Decoration, Hong Kong, 1999, pl. 61.