TWO TURQUOISE-GROUND GRISAILLE-DECORATED BOWLS ‘DAYA ZHAI’ MARKS, QING DYNASTY, GUANGXU PERIOD

each with deep rounded sides rising from a straight foot to a flaring rim, decorated to the exterior in grisaille with leafy branches bearing large chrysanthemum and mallow blossoms below a songbird in flight, inscribed in iron-red near the rim with the Daya Zhai mark and a seal reading Tiandi yijia chun (Heaven and earth enjoying spring as one), all reserved against a bright turquoise ground, the base inscribed in iron-red with four characters reading Yongqing changchun (eternal celebration of everlasting spring)

Collection of Gustaf and Annie Wallenberg, Sweden (acquired prior to 1919).
A Swedish Private Collection.

One bowl has a 1.5cm by 3mm chip to the rim and has a 5mm area of glaze inconsistency to the interior base. There is a 5mm by 2mm chip to the rim and asmall glaze crawl to the interior base of the other bowl and both have burst air bubbles and iron spots to the glaze. There is rubbing to the gilding at the rim to both.
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