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• Auction House:
  Sotheby's Australia
• Sale Name:
  Fine Asian, Australian & European Arts & Design
• Sale Date:
  18 Jul 2018 ~ 6pm (AEST)
• Lot #:
  297
• Lot Description:
  A pair of famille-rose 'Balsam pear' teabowls and covers, seal marks of Daoguang
  each bowl with steeply rounded sides flaring to the lipped rim, finely enamelled to the exterior with a fruiting and flowering Balsam pear entwined around a spray of bamboo and with a hovering butterfly above, the stems extending over the rim onto the interior, the matching shallow domed cover with raised circular knop doubling as a foot when inverted, similarly painted on the exterior and interior with fruiting vine, bamboo and butterflies, the base of the bowl and the interior of the knop inscribed with a six-character seal mark in underglaze blue, fitted box (4)
  11 cm diameter
• References:
  A pair of famille-rose bowls and covers of this pattern dated to the Daoguang period, sold Christie's, London, 11 May 2010, lot 258; and a single bowl and cover of this pattern dated to the Daoguang period, sold Sotheby's, Hong Kong, 5 October 2016, lot 3673
• Estimate:
  A$30,000 - 40,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Oriental

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