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The bowl with rounded sides and slightly flared rim, is enameled on the exterior with stylized lotus sprays separated by gilt shuangxi, 'double-happiness', characters, all reserved on a pale pink ground. The base has a four-character hall mark, Yi Chun Tang zhi (made for the Hall of Ever-Present Spring), possibly Tongzhi period.
6 in. (15.2 cm.) diam.


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The hall mark Yi Chun Tang (Hall of Ever-Present Spring) appears to be unusal, and is known to be associated with the Xuantong period (1909-1911). See Gerald Davison, The New & Revised Handbook of Marks on Chinese Ceramics, 2010, p.102, no. 1226.

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