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Pair of Small 光緒 Guangxu Ducks Bowls
A fine pair of "Ducks" bowls painted in the
doucai palette, each with rounded sides rising to a hint of a flared rim. The exteriors decorated with four ducks swimming in a lotus pond separated by
stands of lotus and millet below double blue lines at the rim and above a band
of lappets radiating from the foot. On the interiors is a roundel of
further ducks in a lotus pond encircled by concentric lines. The interior
edge also treated with a double line border. On the bases in underglaze
blue written in kaishu script is the six character mark and period of
光緒
Guangxu. |
Reverse of bowls showing the reign mark of the 光緒 Guangxu emperor
Interior of bowls showing the ducks in a lotus pond
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