Qing yongzheng pastel flowers green-splashed bowls “CV 18 riches and honour”

• RMB 7475000
• HKD 8427283
• USD 1121250
• EUR 822250

bowl of exposure, oblique abdomen, ring foot. The outer wall body with two overlapping pink peony, framed by a delicate and charming be about to drip. Yulan flowers spread to the side, or bud or blossom; Branches and leaves with shallow orange daisies, very lovely. Blue and white double bottom circle book “qing yongzheng year” regular script.

1.2003 years [source] bought in Hong Kong su fu (invoice);
2. BaiXuan study collection, Hong Kong.

clear clear with “tao,” Chen yue: “pastel in qing dynasty is the most beautiful, unprecedented, after, gorgeous.” Yong zheng famille rose has a fresh and elegant, powder and the characteristics of the soft, rich and changeful color levels. Yongzheng emperor of porcelain production, design, exquisite is rigorous, every flower subjects, of the qing dynasty palace workshops are all traditional Chinese realistic painting photo, unity of good and artistically elegant is free from vulgarity. 盌 painted peony, magnolia, Daisy, colour quietly elegant ease, brushwork naturally smooth, level clear, among the, lifelike, is the masterpiece of yongzheng once enamel ware. Bowl of flowers “CV 18 riches and honour” figure, meaning auspicious.
“CV 18 riches and honour” figure in more yongzheng dynasty powder enamel ware. Han dynasty palace has “CV 18 yuan”, to “CV 18” refers to the academician courtyard, “about CV 18 sun yi on through the golden gate,” means for promotion is just around the corner. The word “wealth” from “the analects of Confucius – YanYuan” : “smell quotient of yi, life and death have life, wealth in the day”, refers to the meaning of the rich and dignitaries. Later generations to magnolia symbol CV 18, peony symbolize riches and honour, the two flower metaphors appear “CV 18” riches and honor, wish position promotion, rich family. In addition to the auction “CV 18 riches and honour” wen bowl, “CV 18 riches and honour” figure is also consistent to the yong zheng famille rose bowl, sold at Christie’s in Hong Kong, on May 31, 2010, Lot 1874 (figure 1). The bowl and the auction “CV 18 wealth” bowl flowers layout is almost exactly the same, the difference is in red peony on this bowl is pink, stem yulan magnolia flower blooming in the bowl of red flowers instead. In addition, the “CV 18 riches and honour” figure is also visible on the cut machine, as a yong zheng famille rose okho spring bottle, sotheby’s in London, March 2, 1971, Lot 194. Otherwise a yong zheng famille rose tree, sold at Christie’s in Hong Kong, May 28, 2014, Lot 2914 (figure 2).
yongzheng once famille rose bowl on the flower decoration vary, but roughly the same structure. Generally for a trunk gives birth to different varieties of flower, three-quarters of the covered bowl weeks, butterflies or bees hovering in between. “CV 18 riches and honour” figure with the bowl of decorative pattern of similar one painted peony and bees, sold at Christie’s in Hong Kong, November 28, 2005, Lot 1349. Another pair, with peach blossom and ganoderma lucidum, cataloguing in John Ayers (John Ayers), the ball (Baur) Tibetan Chinese ceramics volume two, Geneva, chart (figure 3) 222 and 222. There are a pair of smaller yongzheng peony grains powder enamel cup, cup two peony phase complements composition the same as the bowl on the composition of the auction, Christie’s in New York, June 3, 1993, Lot 294.