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A small falangcai-enameled 'butterfly medallion' bowl Double-encircled underglaze-blue Yongzheng six-character mark, Late Qing Dynasty/early Republic period (1900-1916)
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A small falangcai-enameled 'butterfly medallion' bowl
Double-encircled underglaze-blue Yongzheng six-character mark, Late Qing Dynasty/early Republic period (1900-1916)With rounded sides, brilliantly painted in rich enamels with four roundels of paired butterflies painted primarily in tones of stippled brown and yellow with pink highlights, with one in green, all within circular roundels formed by their wings and curling floral sprays of pinks, chrysanthemums, aster, peony, lotus, and prunus blossoms, the interior plain. 4 3/4in (12.1cm) diameter
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清晚期/民國早期 琺瑯彩蝴蝶圖盌 《大清雍正年製》款For two very similarly enameled bowls bearing Yongzheng marks, listed as Qing Dynasty but with spurious marks and with decoration possibly added later, gifted to the Institute in 1930 by Mr. Lee Ling Yun, see The Art Institute of Chicago, website www.artic.edu, accession no. 1930.261.This bowl well-illustrates the masterfully-devised design of perfectly circular, un-bordered medallions harmoniously formed from a combination of seemingly unsuitable shapes: stems, curled leaves, petalled-blossoms combined with either butterfly or bats' wings as a framework for the medallions, that was introduced during the reign of the Yongzheng emperor. For a Yongzheng pre-cursor with very similar decoration, see Christie's, Hong Kong, Important Qing Porcelain from the Yuen Family Collection, 30 April 2000, lot 588. For an illustration of Republic copies that illustrate the difficulty of creating coherent roundels from such disparate elements; see Ye Peilan, Appraising Ancient Chinese Ceramics, Taipei, 1994, pp. 175-176.
