A pair of iron-red reserve-decorated bowls, China. Six-character seal mark Daoguang, one bowl of the period. Photo courtesy Lempertz

Diameter 18.2 cm. Lot 469 / Estimate € 6 000

A pair of iron-red reserve-decorated bowls with deep sides and flaring rim, decorated to the exterior with bamboo reserved on a coral-red ground. One crack inside the footrim. Underglaze-blue six-character seal mark Daoguang, one bowl of the period, the other possibly 19th century.

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