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A LARGE AND IMPRESSIVE FAMILLE-ROSE 'LADIES' PUNCH BOWL Yongzheng/Qianlong
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A LARGE AND IMPRESSIVE FAMILLE-ROSE 'LADIES' PUNCH BOWL
Yongzheng/Qianlong
Painted in delicate pastel famille-rose enamels with a continuous scene of elegantly dressed ladies and children in a pavilion garden-terrace, one vignette depicting two ladies playing chess (go) at a square table, their right arms raised to hold hands with two playful children nearby pointing to a willow and rockwork, alongside three ladies hold an open landscape scroll painting with playful children, nearby two ladies are huddled at the corner of a building with a moon gate opening, this reveals two ladies reading and drinking at a tall stand with another lady playing a qin across her lap with children at play alongside, all below a simple iron-red and gilt band of meandering fruit and flowers at the brown-dressed rim, the bowl interior brilliantly painted with iron-red and white fish amidst fronds and lotus at the center below a wide blue and yellow-enameled T-fret band with bright rose-enameled lotus flowerheads divided by six shaped panels with ribboned Daoist emblems and bats.
15 3/8in (39.1cm) diam
Painted in delicate pastel famille-rose enamels with a continuous scene of elegantly dressed ladies and children in a pavilion garden-terrace, one vignette depicting two ladies playing chess (go) at a square table, their right arms raised to hold hands with two playful children nearby pointing to a willow and rockwork, alongside three ladies hold an open landscape scroll painting with playful children, nearby two ladies are huddled at the corner of a building with a moon gate opening, this reveals two ladies reading and drinking at a tall stand with another lady playing a qin across her lap with children at play alongside, all below a simple iron-red and gilt band of meandering fruit and flowers at the brown-dressed rim, the bowl interior brilliantly painted with iron-red and white fish amidst fronds and lotus at the center below a wide blue and yellow-enameled T-fret band with bright rose-enameled lotus flowerheads divided by six shaped panels with ribboned Daoist emblems and bats.
15 3/8in (39.1cm) diam
Footnotes
清雍正/乾隆 粉彩仕女圖潘趣大酒碗
Provenance:
Bluett's, London (according to label)
Sotheby's London, 8 November 2017, lot 120
來源：
倫敦 Bluett's 古董商（據標籤）
倫敦蘇富比，2017 年 11 月 8 日，拍品編號 120
Exquisitely painted bowls of this early type, dating to either the Yongzheng period (1723-1735) or possibly into the early Qianlong era (1736-1745), are quite rare. The artist imbues the beautiful oval faces of the elegantly dressed ladies with remarkably delicate facial expressions and with touching interactions between both the groups of ladies and the children in their care.
For another identically sized large bowl with a scene of ladies and fishermen in an idyllic river landscape on a garden and dated to the Yongzheng or early Qianlong period, see Christie's New York, Export Art Featuring the Tibor Collection, Part II, 23 January 2022, lot 79.
Another very slightly larger one with ladies on horseback and identified as a scene 'The Teary Procession of Zhaojun on a Clear Night' from chapter thirty-five of the Sui Tang Yanyi, a Chinese historical novel based on events in the Sui and the Tang dynasties, was sold at Sotheby's New York, 25 January 2025, lot 155. A similarly painted large example with ladies playing musical instruments in an interior scene and dated to the Yongzheng period, and formerly in the Saul and Joyce Brandman Collection, Los Angeles is illustrated on the Imperial Oriental Art website https://imperialorientalartnyc.com.