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A Chinese ‘valentine pattern’ bowl The deep sides rising from a straight foot, decorated to the exterior with the ‘Valentine’ pattern, with two large panels each decorated with various emblems of love beneath a garland-draped breadfruit tree, including two kissing doves, sided by two flaming hearts on the altar of love, a pair of dogs signifying fidelity, Cupid’s bow and a quiver of arrows, a pair of spears with a corded bag, all within bamboo borders, and two small circular cartouches, the interior rim with a cod’s-roe and triangle work border in underglaze blue, interspersed with lotus flowers and leafy sprigs, the base glazed. Period: Qianlong (1736 - 1795). Diameter: 28.5 cm.