Beschreibung:

A FAMILLE ROSE YELLOW-GROUND 'FLOWER' BOWL, A 'FIGURAL' VASE AND A STEM BOWL THE BOWL AND THE VASE: GUANGXU SIX-CHARACTER MARKS IN IRON-RED AND OF THE PERIOD (1875-1908) THE STEM BOWL: 20TH CENTURY The bowl is enamelled to the exterior with five large flowers amongst leafy tendrils. The interior is decorated with five iron-red bats in flight. The vase is finely enamelled to each side of the flat body with a cartouche depicting ladies in gardens, enclosed by scrolling lotus on a lemon-yellow ground. The long neck is applied with twin ruyi -shaped handles. The stem bowl is enamelled to the exterior with the Eight Buddhist Emblems, bajixiang , amongst scrolling lotus, all against a mint-green-ground. The interior is decorated with five iron-red bats in flight. There is an apocryphal Jiaqing mark to the inside of the foot. The vase: 7 1/8 in. (18 cm.) high. Provenance The bowl: Christie's Singapore 30 March 1997, lot 279 (part). The vase: Acquired in Paris in 2008.