An unusual pair of 'Dayazhai' grisaille-enamelled yellow-ground octagonal bowlsYong qing chang chun, Tian di yi jia chun and Dayazhai marks, Guangxu
Each delicately enamelled to the exterior with a magpie perched on a blossoming wisteria branch above a flowering rose bush, with an oval cartouche in iron-red and gilt enclosing the characters 'Dayazhai' flanked by dragons under the flared, octagonal rim, all against a lemon-yellow ground.
Each 22cm (8 7/8in) diam. (2).注脚See a bowl of the same, well-known pattern, but foliate rim, sold at Sotheby's, New York, Important Chinese Art, 13 September 2017, lot 248.

A bowl of the same shape, but of purple ground, was sold in our New Bond Street rooms on 6 November 2014, Fine Chinese Art, lot 264.