A Pair of Famille Rose 'Babao' Bowls seal marks and period of Qianlong

each painted with the bajixiang, paired together in four clusters, below an iron-red archaistic scroll band at the rim within single line blue-enamel borders, and above a band of blue beads on a yellow ground also within blue single line borders, below a band of iron-red overlapping ruyi heads, the base with the six-character seal mark in underglaze-blue  

Sotheby's London, 11th June 1991, lot 217. 

A drawing of this design which was in use from the Qianlong through to the Xuantong period is illustrated in Geng Baochang, Ming Qing ciqi jianding, Hong Kong, 1993, p. 318, fig. 533.