a 'famille-rose' yellow-ground medallion bowl Daoguang mark

the rounded sides rising to an everted lip, decorated on the exterior with four medallions depicting Cowherd and Weaver Girl, reserved on a yellow sgraffiato ground of dense scrollwork and painted with ruyi-head flames, picked out in pink, yellow, blue and green enamels, the interior central medallion in underglaze-blue depicting Cowherd and Weaver Girl united in heaven by the magpie-bridge, surrounded on the sides with further flames and magpies, apocryphal six-character Daoguang seal mark

The bowl is in overall good condition.
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The Cowherd and Weaver Girl is the story of two celestial lovers who were married on earth. Upon returning home the King and Queen of Heaven separated the lovers with a single stroke of the latter's silver hairpin, drawing a line across the heavens. Different versions explain their separation, but ultimately the two are forced to live apart on different sides of the Heavenly River (the Milky Way). Once a year, on the seventh day of the seventh month, the magpies reunite the lovers by making a bridge for the Weaver Girl to cross.