Lot 298

FAMILLE ROSE SGRAFFITO RUBY-GROUND 'MEDALLION' BOWLS
DAOGUANG MARK





Auction: 8 November 2017 at 17:00 GMT
£5,625
Description
the exterior delicately enamelled and gilt with four medallions enclosing 'Hundred Antiquities' such as lanterns, archaic bronzes and scholar's desk objects, surrounded by floral sprays reserved on a ruby sgraffito ground, the interior painted in underglaze blue with ribbon-tied lanterns surrounding a central medallion with stems of millet symbolising 'abundant grain harvest' (wu gu feng deng)
Dimensions
14.9cm diam
Footnote
Provenance:
Private Irish collection.




