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A PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE CONICAL BOWLS

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A PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE CONICAL BOWLS
DAOGUANG SEAL MARKS AND OF THE PERIOD

Each enamelled around the flaring sides with three goats picked out in greyish-white, standing on a grassy bank amidst iron-red berried nandina branches, purplish-pink peonies, and pink and white prunus borne on a shaded grey gnarled tree, all issuing from grey-stippled pale salmon rockwork, bearing three iron-red seals and a twelve character inscription
5 3/8in. (13.7cm.) diam., box (2)

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Cf. a similar example in the Weishaup Collection illustrated by Avitabile, From the Dragon's Treasure, no. 52; another from the Simon Kwan Collection, included in the Chinese University of Hong Kong Exhibition of Imperial Porcelain of the Late Qing, 1983, Catalogue, no. 49; and a pair sold in our New York Rooms, 1 December 1988, lot 336

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