Lot Essay
This pattern first appeared on bowls of the Qianlong period and continued to be produced during successive reign periods. Compare to a similar Jiaqing-marked pair of bowls illustrated in The Tsui Museum of Art, Chinese Ceramics, vol. IV, Hong Kong, 1995, pl. 181. A pair of dishes with the Buddhist emblems arranged in pairs bearing the Daoguang cyclical dates corresponding to 1849 and 1850, were included in the Exhibition of Ch'ing Polychrome Porcelain, Hong Kong Oriental Ceramic Society, 1977, illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 11.