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A RARE PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE AND BLUE AND WHITE BOWLS
DAOGUANG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARKS IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE
PERIOD (1821-1850)

Each bowl has rounded sides rising to a slightly lipped rim and is decorated in
famille rose enamels on the exterior with a vignette of various fowers including
yellow lilies, camellias and asters growing from a grassy foreground, and in blue and
white on the interior with four sprays of roses and lingzhi above a central medallion
of lingzhi growing from a rock amidst crashing waves and two ribbon-tied wan
emblems.

5æ in. (14.9 cm.), ftted box (2)

$30,000-50,000 (interior)
(mark)
PROVENANCE

Private collection, Palm Beach, Florida, since the 1940s.

This pair of unusual bowls is similar to a bowl of the same shape and size sold at Sotheby’s
Hong Kong, 3-4 December 2015, lot 519, but the blue and white decoration on the interior is
of four beribboned lanterns rather than the roses and lingzhi of the present bowls.
清道光 青花粉彩花卉紋盌 六字篆書款

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