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

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A PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE YELLOW-GROUND 'MEDALLION' BOWLS
GUANGXU SIX-CHARACTER MARKS AND OF THE PERIOD

The exterior of each decorated with three medallions, each containing a goat in a grassy landscape with trees and flowering plants alternating with vases of flowers, Precious Objects and fruit, all on a lemon-yellow enamel ground incised with feathery foliate scrolls, the interiors painted in underglaze-blue with four groups of flowering branches encircling a central medallion enclosing three goats in a landscape--5 7/8in. (14.8cm.) diam. (2)

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A Guangxu bowl of this pattern is illustrated by Lang, The Powell-Cotton Collection of Chinese Ceramics, no. 124; another from the Simon Kwan Collection was included in the Chinese University of Hong Kong Exhibition of Imperial Porcelain of Late Qing, 1983, Catalogue, no. 135

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