A YELLOW-GROUND FAMILLE-ROSE SGRAFFIATO 'SAN YANG' MEDALLION BOWL SEAL MARK AND PERIOD OF DAOGUANG | 清道光 粉彩黃地軋道開光三羊開泰紋盌 《大清道光年製》款

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A YELLOW-GROUND FAMILLE-ROSE SGRAFFIATO 'SAN YANG' MEDALLION BOWL

SEAL MARK AND PERIOD OF DAOGUANG

清道光 粉彩黃地軋道開光三羊開泰紋盌

《大清道光年製》款

the rounded sides rising from a slightly tapered foot to a flared rim, the exterior with three gilt-bordered medallions, each enclosing a ram under a fruiting tree, divided by blue and white vases holding peony branches and various auspicious objects, surrounded by pomegranates and lingzhi stems, all reserved on a bright lemon-yellow ground decorated in sgraffiato technique with feathery scrollwork, the interior in cobalt blue with a medallion enclosing three further rams, encircled on the well by four fruiting and flowering branches suspending auspicious emblems such as a ruyi sceptre, a chime, a double-gourd and a fish, the base inscribed in underglaze blue with a six-character seal mark

14.9 cm, 5 ⅞ in.