A fine pair of blue and white 'three friends of winter' bowls, Seal marks and period of Jiaqing

Collection of Sir Thomas Beaumont Hohler (1871-1946), and thence by descent.

Compare a closely related pair of bowls, included in the Exhibition of Chinese Blue and White Porcelain and Related Underglaze Red, The Oriental Ceramic Society, Hong Kong, 1975, cat. no. 116. This tranquil design was reproduced across much of the Qing dynasty. See a Kangxi mark and period bowl of this design from the Neave-Hill Collection, illustrated in W. B. R. Neave-Hill, Chinese Ceramics, Edinburgh, 1975, pl. 146, and later sold at Christie’s London, 9th December 1991, lot 206; a Yongzheng mark and period example sold in these rooms, 8th December 1992, lot 249 and again, 1st November 2023, lot 152; and a pair of Qianlong mark and period in the Roemer Museum, Hildesheim, illustrated in Ulrich Wiesner, Chinesisches Porzellan: Die Ohlmer'sche Sammlung im Roemer-Museum, Hildesheim, 1981, pls 43 and 44.