20 – M5145

• From the collection of Ho-Ching (1900-1963) and Mme. Von Sung Yang (1903-2005), acquired between 1939 and 1955 and thence by descent, together with label E/O Von Sung Ya, 40026807 38DSL.
• Sold by Sotheby’s New York in their auction of Important Chinese Art, 23rd September 2020 and thence by descent, lot 532, 44/5.
• The pair to this bowl, of inferior quality and condition, from the same collection, was sold by Sotheby’s New York in their auction of Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, 16th September 2009, lot 218, 76.
• An identical example from the Jingguantang Collection, the Tsui Museum of Art, Hong Kong, was published in Chinese Ceramics V; Qing, Hong Kong, 1995, 36, and was sold by Christie’s Hong Kong in their auction of The Jingguantang Collection, Magnificent Chinese Works of Art, 3rd November 1996, lot 570, and was then published by Regina Krahl in Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, Volume Four (II), London, 2010, no. 1804, p. 353, then sold by Sotheby’s Hong Kong in their auction of The Meiyintang Collection, Part IV, 9th October 2012, lot 33, pp. 124-127, where it notes, “bowls of this form and with this design of flowers and fruits of the four seasons were made in both Yongzheng (AD 1723-35) and Qianlong (AD 1736-95) periods. The former also with a reign mark inscribed in seal script, but usually with a celadon glaze of more bluish tone. A Yongzheng example from the Anthony de Rothschild Collection is illustrated by Regina Krahl in The Anthony de Rothschild Collection of Chinese Ceramics, Volume Two, 1996, no. 144”.
• Pomegranate, shiliu, peach, tao, and finger citron, fushou, form the rebus fushou sanduo, “may you have an abundance of blessings, sons and longevity”. Added here is lychee, lizhi, which is homophonous with the word lizi, meaning to have a son as so to continue the family name. Lizhi is also a pun on “clever”.

Overall in excellent condition, without any chips,crcaks,or restoration.