Description: A pair of famille-rose bowls, Shendetang marks Qing dynasty, Daoguang period
each of wide rounded form with lipped rim, decorated on the exterior with a scene of a pair of ducks swimming in a lotus pool with flowers and foliage rising from the water, the base inscribed in iron-red with a four-character mark
(2)
14 cm diameter
PROVENANCE
The Weishaupt Collection, Berlin
Sotheby's, Amsterdam, 12 May 1998, lot 350
Sotheby's, Melbourne, 28 October 2008, lot 248
Private Collection, Melbourne, acquired from the above
LITERATURE
Gunhild Avitable,
From the Dragon's Treasure: Chinese Porcelain from the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries in the Weishaupt Collection, Bamboo Publishing, England, 1987, no. 64 (illustrated)