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PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF A LADY
1212
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.
5º in. (13.3 cm.) diam. (2) (mark)
$8,000-12,000
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.
清乾隆 青花福祿萬代紋盌兩件 六字篆書款
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