a pair of 'famille-rose' cups Qing dynasty, 19th century

each of U-shape standing on a short foot, the exterior decorated with an upper and lower band of the bajixiang ('Eight Buddhist Emblems') alternating with shou characters, the central register with a parade of auspicious animals and deities, all above lotus thrones and within mandorlas, the interior decorated with a gilt, red, blue, green and yellow-enameled lotus flower set with the cross-vajra as the heart, an iron-red Baragon t.mes d mark to the base (2)

The cups are in good overall condition with some expected wear to the gilding and enamels. One cup with a pinhole to the mouth rim.
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The Baragon t.mes d mark to the base is, according to Gerald Davison in The Handbook of Marks on Chinese Ceramics, the "Mark of the West Wing of the t.mes d Mongolian Banner (applied to a service made to commemorate the marriage of one of the Daoguang Emperor's daughters to a southern Mongolian prince)." It is also found on porcelains of later periods.