A Large 'Famille-Rose' 'bajixiang' Dish Guangxu Mark and Period

of shallow circular saucer-form, decorated with a wide band depicting the bajixiang ('Eight Buddhist Emblems') among floral sprays and scrolling scarves, centered by a floral medallion encircled by floral scrollwork in lime-green, ruyi-head border to rim, three floral scrolls to the underside of the cavetto, underside with six-character mark in iron-red; together with a similar large dish, underside with six-character Xuantong mark in iron-red and of the period (2)

The first with wear to gilding, particularly in the center, slight abrasion to enamels, two small glaze flakes within central gilt circle, the second dish with minor rubbing to enamels, otherwise good
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A smaller similarly-decorated yellow-ground dish without ruyi-head border, with Guangxu six-character mark and of the period in the Palace Museum Collection, Beijing, is illustrated in Porcelains with Cloisonné Enamel Decoration and Famille Rose Decoration, The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 1999, no. 258, p. 289.  Compare also a pair of smaller saucer dishes without ruyi-head border, with Xuantong six-character mark and of the period, sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 29th September 1992, lot 617.