A fine pair of famille-rose pink-ground medallion bowls seal marks and period of Daoguang

each well potted with rounded sides supported by a short foot and rising to an everted rim, enamelled on the exterior with four circular panels with blossoming trees and flowering sprigs, separated by pairs of formal leafy lily and lotus sprigs, all reserved on a pink sgraffiato ground with feathery foliate scrolls, the interior painted in underglaze-blue with a central medallion of a white rabbit standing on a grassy knoll beside a pond, encircled by further floral sprays in the cavetto, the base inscribed with the six-character seal mark in underglaze-blue

Famille-rose medallion bowls of this type can be found in blue, ruby, pink and yellow ground from the Qianlong period through the late Qing dynasty varying in the subject within the medallions and on the interior.  A similar pink ground bowl from the former collection of Simon Kwan, is illustrated in Imperial Porcelain of Late Qing, Art Gallery at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1983, cat. no. 37. See a related blue ground Jiajing marked bowl  with floral medallions and underglaze flowers on the interior in the Palace Museum, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, vol. 39, Hong Kong, 1999, no. 183.