GUANGXU SIX-CHARACTER MARKS AND OF THE PERIOD
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THREE DRAGON BOWLS
GUANGXU SIX-CHARACTER MARKS AND OF THE PERIOD
Each incised to the exterior with two striding dragons in pursuit of flaming pearls, two reserved on a yellow-ground, another reserved on a green-ground, enamel to one faded
two bowls 6in. (15.2cm.) diam., the other 5¾in. (14.7cm.) diam. (3)
GUANGXU SIX-CHARACTER MARKS AND OF THE PERIOD
Each incised to the exterior with two striding dragons in pursuit of flaming pearls, two reserved on a yellow-ground, another reserved on a green-ground, enamel to one faded
two bowls 6in. (15.2cm.) diam., the other 5¾in. (14.7cm.) diam. (3)
Literature
A rounded Guangxu bowl with the same decoration is illustrated by van Oort, hinese Porcelain of the 19th and 20th Centuries, pl. 69. Compare also a Kangxi bowl of the same pattern illustrated by Schmidt, Chinesische Keramik, pl. 107a, and a Yongzheng example included in the London O.C.S. Exhibition of the Arts of the Ch'ing Dynasty, 1964, Catalogue, no. 187.