A famille rose and underglaze blue yellow-ground 'three rams' medallion bowl
Guangxu six-character mark and of the periodThe interior painted in underglaze blue with a central roundel of three auspicious rams surrounded by four flowering branches supporting ribboned auspicious symbols, the exterior walls finely decorated with three circular reserves of rams in landscapes surrounded by flower-filled vases and other ornaments rendered in bright enamels on the lemon-yellow sgraffiato ground. 15cm (5 8/9in) diam.
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清光緒 粉彩黃地軋道開光三羊開泰內青花盌青花「大清光緒年製」楷書款 Provenance: Gustaf Oscar Wallenberg (1863?1937)來源:瑞典外交官、政治家Gustaf Oscar Wallenberg(1863?1937)舊藏Gustaf Oscar Wallenberg was a Swedish diplomat and politician. Originally a captain in the Swedish navy, he left and devoted himself to maritime trade in 1891. In the years 1900-1907 he was a member of Parliament's second chamber as representative of the city of Stockholm. In 1906 he was appointed envoy in Tokyo, and Beijing from 1907. Wallenberg thus became the first permanently-stationed Swedish career diplomat in East Asia. He returned to Sweden in 1919 before becoming minister to Turkey in Constantinople and later ambassador in Sofia until 1930.Compare with a very similar yellow-ground 'three rams' bowl, Guangxu six-character mark and of the period, which was sold at Sotheby's New York, 18-19 March 2014, lot 484.