Lot 684
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TWO DAYAZHAI TURQUOISE-GROUND BOWLS

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TWO DAYAZHAI TURQUOISE-GROUND BOWLS
YONG QING CHANG CHUN MARKS IN IRON-RED ON THE BASE, LATE QING DYNASTY

Each with rounded sides rising to a slightly flared rim, the first decorated in famille rose enamels with a bird perched on a wisteria vine rising above herbaceous peony and continuing around the sides, the second decorated en grisaille with a similar scene, both with a dayazhai mark and a Tian di yi jia chun seal in iron-red below the rim, all reserved on an opaque turquoise ground, the interiors glazed white
5½ and 5in. (13.9 and 12.7cm.) diam. (2)

Lot Essay

Refer to the article by Ronald W. Longsdorf, "Dayazhai Ware: Porcelains of the Empress Dowager", Orientations, Hong Kong, March 1992, p. 45. Compare the larger turquoise-ground bowl illustrated op. cit., fig. 1, and the smaller grisaille turquoise-ground bowl, fig. 2, with the present lot