Property from an Old Hong Kong Family Collection

A rare doucai 'peach' bowl

Mark and period of Kangxi

香港家族舊藏

清康熙 鬪彩萬壽紋盌 《大清康熙年製》款

exquisitely decorated in multi-coloured enamels with a leafy scroll painted in shades of green issuing gnarled purple twigs bearing large lotus blossoms and double-peaches, all between a border of repeated wan symbols in cobalt blue at the rim and a classic scroll band at the foot, the interior decorated with a central medallion of three further peaches and buds around a wan symbol, the base with a six-character un𒊎derglaze-blue mark within a doubl💖e circle

d. 14.4 cm