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A PAINTED ENAMEL YELLOW-GROUND 'MEDALLION' BOWL AND A PUCE-DECORATED 'DUCK AND LOTUS' MARRIAGE BOWL
THE YELLOW BOWL: QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN BLUE ENAMEL AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795), THE MARRIAGE BOWL: 18TH CENTURY
A PAINTED ENAMEL YELLOW-GROUND 'MEDALLION' BOWL AND A PUCE-DECORATED 'DUCK AND LOTUS' MARRIAGE BOWL THE YELLOW BOWL: QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN BLUE ENAMEL AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795), THE MARRIAGE BOWL: 18TH CENTURY The yellow-ground bowl is decorated to the exterior with four circular roundels containing the characters Wanshou wujiang that may be translated as 'boundless longevity', together with the bajixiang , the Eight Buddhist Emblems and stylised lotus blossoms on leafy tendrils. The marriage bowl is decorated with a continuous scene of three pairs of ducks in a lotus pond below a band of dragons in pursuit of flaming pearls. The interior has a medallion enclosing a pair of Mandarin ducks below a band of lanca script at the rim. The base has a four-character mark reading L üwu Jiu'an . 7 ¼ in. (18.5 cm.) diam. and 6 in. (15.2 cm.) diam.