FIVE FAMILLE ROSE VESSELS
LATE QING DYNASTY
The first bowl is enameled on the exterior with flying bats, peaches, and shou marks on a yellow ground, with an apocryphal Qianlong six-character seal mark in underglaze blue on the base. The pair of yellow-glazed bowls each decorated on the exterior with bats and shou marks in iron-red, the interior glazed white with five bats circling a shou mark. Another bowl is decorated on the exterior with three medallions with confronted dragons and phoenixes, interspersed by floral sprigs, and contained by bands of angular scrollwork above and petal-lappet below, with a Guangxu six-character mark in underglaze blue on the base (1878-1908). The dish is decorated on the exterior with underglaze-blue dragons and iron-red clouds, and on the interior with an iron-red sun surrounded by dragons emerging from grisaille waves. The inscription on the base in underglaze blue is a poem on present day Hangzhou by Song-dynasty poet Lin Sheng, with the two seals at the end reading wen wan (‘play things’).
5 ¼, 3 5/8, 3 7/8, and 4 3/8 (13.3, 9.2, 9.8, and 11.1 cm.), diam.

Provenance
Michael D. Stevenson (1947-2011) Collection.