A PAIR OF BLUE AND WHITE BOWLS

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A PAIR OF BLUE AND WHITE BOWLS
JIAQING SEAL MARKS AND OF THE PERIOD

Each painted on the exterior with the eight trigrams, bagua, divided by alternating cranes and cloud scrolls above cresting waves, the interior with a central flower-head in a medallion of further waves--5½in. (14cm.) diam. (2)

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This popular pattern continued from Kangxi to Xuantong; for a set of Qing examples, cf. The Min Chu Society Exhibition, Splendours of the Qing Dynasty, 1992, Catalogue, no. 128, from the Simon Kwan Collection

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