A pair of famille rose 'Gengzhi tu' dishes, Iron-red seal marks and period of Daoguang | 清道光 粉彩耕織圖詩文盤一對 《大清道光年製》款

A pair of famille rose 'Gengzhi tu' dishes

Iron-red seal marks and period of Daoguang

清道光 粉彩耕織圖詩文盤一對 《大清道光年製》款

each dish painted with a scene from the Gengzhi tu (album of tilling and weaving), one dish depicting a figure ploughing a rice field with a buffalo while a group of women are selecting silk worms in an interior, the second dish showing a group of men planting out rice seedlings while women are tending to silk worms, accompanied by two inscriptions, the exterior painted with bats in flight depicted in iron red, the base with a six-character seal mark in iron red

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Diameters 24.3 and 23 cm, 9 5/8 by 9 1/8 in.