A FINE PAIR OF FAMILLE-ROSE YELLOW-GROUND 'MEDALLION' BOWLS

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A FINE PAIR OF FAMILLE-ROSE YELLOW-GROUND 'MEDALLION' BOWLS
DAOGUANG SEAL MARKS AND OF THE PERIOD

The exterior of each painted with four landscape roundels executed in grisaille, wash, and coloured enamels, and divided by flower-heads borne on leafy tendrils, all reserved on a yellow sgraffiato ground, the centre of the interior with a central flower-head radiating ruyi-heads in gilt and iron-red alternating with blue flower-heads--5 7/8in. (15cm.) diam. (2)

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A pair of bowls of the same design in the Hong Kong Museum of Art is illustrated in the Exhibition, The Wonders of the Potter's Palette, 1984, Catalogue, no. 102; and another in the British Museum is illustrated by Soame Jenyns, Later Chinese Porcelain, pl. CXIII, fig. 2B

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