QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARKS IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

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TWO BLUE AND WHITE BOWLS
QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARKS IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
Each is decorated on the exterior with a band of bats suspending scrolling double-gourd vines between narrow bands of leafy scroll and lotus lappets. The interior similarly decorated with bats and double-gourds within a double circle.
5 ¼ in. (13.3 cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

Compare the pair of Yongzheng bowls with similar 'bats and gourds' pattern, but rendered in famille rose enamels, illustrated in Sun Yingzhou de taoci shijie (Sun Yingzhou's World of Ceramics), Beijing, 2005, pp. 212-213, no. 129.

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