[PRIVATE COLLECTION, LONDON] CHINESE GILT-DECORATED PAINTED ENAMEL 'KUI-DRAGON' BOWL QING DYNASTY, 18TH-19TH CENTURY

清 銅胎畫琺瑯藍地夔龍紋碗

finely painted on the exterior with a band of interlocking kui-dragons in dark blue and pink, all against a sky-blue ground with key-fret pattern in gilt, the base inscribed with a stylised shou longevity symbol

Dimensions:

13cm diameter; 211.1g

Provenance:

Private collection, London;

Formerly in the H & J Rendall Collection, Stock No. 0835 (with circular labels)

倫敦私人收藏；

H. & J. Rendall舊藏，藏品號0835（籤）

Footnote:

An almost identical painted enamel bowl was in the Qing Court collection, now is in the collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei, museum no. Zhong Fa 中琺001200N.