A PAIR OF CHINESE FAMILLE ROSE CORAL-GROUND 'PEONY' BOWLS

SIX CHARACTER XUANTONG MARKS AND OF THE PERIOD 1908-11

Each painted with three panels enclosing large peony flowerheads against a yellow ground, the designs framed by elegant blue flowers growing from leafy branches, all reserved on a bold coral ground, the bases with the reign marks in underglaze blue, each with a paper label for Douglas J K Wright Ltd, Curzon Street, 11.2cm. (2)

Provenance: from an English private collection, West Yorkshire, formed in the 1970s and 1980s, purchased from Douglas Wright.

Cf. S Marchant and Son, Exhibition of Nineteenth Century Mark and Period Porcelain, 1991, p.67, no.72 for a pair of Guangxu mark and period bowls with the same design.