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A famille rose yellow-ground “medallion” bowl The rounded sides rising from a slightly tapered foot to a flared rim, the exterior with three gilt-bordered medallions, each enclosing a goat under a fruiting tree, divided by blue and white vases holding peony branches and various auspicious objects, surrounded by pomegranates and lingzhi stems, all reserved on a bright yellow sgraffiato ground decorated in sgraffiato technique with feathery scrollwork, the interior in cobalt blue with a medallion enclosing three further goats, encircled on the well by four fruiting and flowering branches suspending auspicious emblems such as a ruyi sceptre, a chime, and a double-gourd six-character mark of Guangxu in underglaze blue. Period: Guangxu (1874?1908) mark and period. Diameter: 15 cm.
For a Daoguang bowl of this design, see the Ohlmer collection in the Roemer Museum, Hildesheim, is illustrated in Ulrich Wiesner, Chinesisches Porzellan, Mainz am Rhein, 1981, pl. 143; and another is published in W.G. Gulland, Chinese Porcelain, London, 1911, vol. 1, pl. 404.
For the prototype of this design, compare a pair of Jiaqing mark and period bowls, from the T.Y. Chao collection, illustrated in Michel Beurdeley and Guy Reindre, Qing Porcelain, London, 1987, pl. 242.
PROVENANCE
Envoyé Gustaf Wallenberg (1863?1937),
thence by descent in the family.
CONDITION REPORT
Good condition.