An unusual pair of 'Dayazhai' grisaille-enamelled yellow-ground octagonal bowls Yong qing chang chun, Tian di yi jia chun and Dayazhai marks, Guangxu (2)
An unusual pair of 'Dayazhai' grisaille-enamelled yellow-ground octagonal bowls
Yong qing chang chun, Tian di yi jia chun and Dayazhai marks, GuangxuEach delicately enamelled to the exterior with a magpie perched on a blossoming wisteria branch above a flowering rose bush, with an oval cartouche in iron-red and gilt enclosing the characters 'Dayazhai' flanked by dragons under the flared, octagonal rim, all against a lemon-yellow ground.Each 22cm (8 7/8in) diam. (2).
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See a bowl of the same, well-known pattern, but foliate rim, sold at Sotheby's, New York, Important Chinese Art, 13 September 2017, lot 248.A bowl of the same shape, but of purple ground, was sold in our New Bond Street rooms on 6 November 2014, Fine Chinese Art, lot 264.