A fine and rare coral-ground famille-verte 'peony' bowl

Yongzheng yuzhi mark and period

清雍正 珊瑚紅地五彩牡丹紋盌

《雍正御製》款

the deep rounded sides supported on a short foot rising to a slightly flared rim, the exterior decorated in a famille-verte palette with three large peony blooms, one with green and pale aubergine petals, the other two with yellow and blue petals, interspersed with three smaller blooms picked out in blue, yellow and coral-red, all borne on meandering leafy stems issuing floral buds on a rich coral-red ground, the base with a four-character yuzhi reign mark in underglaze blue within a double square

Diameter 4 ? in., 11.4 cm

Japanese Private Collection (by repute).

來源

日本私人收藏 (傳)