TWO TURQUOISE-GROUND 'MEDALLION' BOWLS QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY |

comprising a bowl decorated to the exterior with four medallions enclosing famille-rose figural scenes all reserved against a 'cracked ice' turquoise-glazed ground, the base with an apocryphal Qianlong seal mark in underglaze blue; and a second bowl similarly decorated, with iron red bamboo shoots occupying the medallions (2)

The seal marked bowl:
Connecticut Private Collection.
Parke-Bernet Galleries New York, 4th-5th November 1965, lot 69.

Both bowls are in overall good condition with minor expected wear to the surface and footring. The 'bamboo medallion' bowl is slightly over-fired, has a small firing line to the base, a minute rim chip and a diamond-shape has been etched into the glaze at the base.
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