A pair of famille-rose yellow-ground cups Marks and period of Tongzhi | 清同治 黃地粉彩五福捧壽紋盃一對 《大清同治年製》款

A pair of famille-rose yellow-ground cups

Marks and period of Tongzhi

清同治 黃地粉彩五福捧壽紋盃一對 《大清同治年製》款

each deep U-shaped body rising to a gently flared rim, finely enamelled around the exterior with four shou characters encircled by wu fu and divided by ribbon-tied wan symbols, all below a broken band of peach sprays, all reserved on a rich yellow ground, the interior with a peach cluster, the base inscribed with the four-character mark in iron-red

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Diameters 9 cm, 3⅝ in.