A CHINESE IMPERIAL FAMILLE ROSE RUBY-GROUND MEDALLION BOWL

SIX CHARACTER JIAQING MARK AND OF THE PERIOD 1796-1820

The exterior finely decorated with four gilt-bordered roundels enclosing flowering sprays including peonies, peaches, hollyhocks and pomegranates, divided by stylised lotus scrolls reserved on a ruby sgraffiato ground, the interior painted with a flower basket encircled by four fruiting flower branches with lingzhi and auspicious emblems in underglaze blue, 14.7cm.

Cf. Recent Acquisitions 2010, Marchant, London, p.104, no.58, for a Daoguang ruby-ground bowl of this design.