A FINE AND RARE PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE RUBY-GROUND 'LANTERN' MEDALLION BOWLS

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A FINE AND RARE PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE RUBY-GROUND 'LANTERN' MEDALLION BOWLS
JIAQING SIX-CHARACTER SEALMARKS AND OF THE PERIOD (1796-1820)

Each with rounded sides rising to a slightly flared mouth rim, the interior finely enamelled and gilded with the feng deng, the 'Lanterns of Abundance', within four medallions divided by foral sprays reserved on a graviata ruby-ground, the interior painted in underglaze-blue with four be-ribboned canopied flasks, surrounding a central medallion radiating four flowering plants alternating with insects suspending bejewelled ruyi-heads
5 3/4 in. (14.7 cm.) diam. (2)

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Previously sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 29 October 2001, lot 600.

Compare with a Daoguang bowl of similar shape and 'lantern' design from the collection of S. K. Kwan, included in the exhibition Joined Colors, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., 1993, illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 58; and another described with a 'purple' enamel is illustrated by Geng Baochang, Ming Qing Ciqi Jianding, Hong Kong, 1993, pl. 507. A third example is in the Metropolitan Museum, illustrated by S. Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1989, pl. 281.

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