Famille-rose 'Balsam pear' teabowls and covers, Daoguang period

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. 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.