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A PAIR OF ENAMELLED CERAMIC DOUBLE-GOURD PLAQUES QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY Each moulded in the form of a beribboned double-gourd raised on a stand simulating wood, the upper pear-shaped section gilded with the character Da surrounded by five bats on a pink and yellow angular scroll ground, the globular lower half similarly decorated, one plaque with the character Ji and the pair with Li, together forming the phrase Daji Dali, 'Great Fortune', both plauqes surmounted by a gilt bat 12 1/8 in. (31 cm.) high, framed (2)