QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARKS IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

Details

A FINE PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE 'BAJIXIANG' BOWLS
QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARKS IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
Each is finely decorated on the exterior with the 'Eight Buddhist Emblems' tied in ribbons and arranged in pairs below iron-red key-fret scrollwork within blue bands at the slightly flaring rim and above conjoined ruyi-heads and a dotted band on yellow-ground above the foot.
4 1/4 in. (10.8 cm.) diam., Japanese wood box

Provenance

A Japanese private collection, acquired in the 1990s

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Lot Essay

This decorative pattern was first seen on Qianlong period bowls, and reproduced during successive reign periods. Compare a very similar pair of Qianlong bajixiang bowls was sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 1 June 2016, lot 3355.

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