each with deep rounded sides rising from a straight foot to a broadly flaring mouth and galleried rim, finely enameled around the exterior with bird and flower scenes, one with two magpies perched on blossoming prunus branches, the other with a long-tailed bird perched on a rose branch grasping an insect in its beak before two young chicks, all framed by borders of feathery scrollwork, the interior with a vibrant arrangement of Buddha's hand citron, rose, dianthus, chrysanthemum and Chinese chestnut, encricled by a broad band beneath the rim with shaped cartouches enclosing rose, prunus and day lily, reserved on a pink diaper ground, with a further band of scroll work, the base with the four-character black-penciled reign mark inscribed on a fruiting sprig of two peaches, the rims gilt (2)

Collection of Emile Goubert (b. 1852).  

One of the bowls in good condition, the enamels have been cleaned. The other with restoration to enamel flakes at the rim, as well as some consolidation and cleaning to typical enamel cracks and wear.
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The inclusion of a four-character reign mark inscribed in on a double-peach sprig is more commonly found on Yongzheng period enamel wares, which may suggest an early Qianlong period attribution for the present bowls. A Yongzheng painted enamel zhadou in the Qing court collection inscribed with the mark on a double-fruit motif, is illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum. Metal-bodied Enamel Ware, Hong Kong, 2002, pl. 191; a painted enamel bowl with a related Yongzheng mark is illustrated in Hugh Moss, By Imperial Command, Hong Kong, 1976, pl. 18; and a ruby-back famille-rose cup also bearing a similar mark, is illustrated in John Ayers, The Baur Collection, vol. IV, Geneva, 1974, pl. A600, where it is suggested that Yongzheng marks on peaches were commissioned for imperial birthdays. Related enamel wares with Qianlong marks inscribed on fruit include two pairs sold in these rooms, the first pair, painted with pheasants, on 5th November 1944, lot 20 and the second, with composite floral scrolls, on 1st June 1993, lot 99. A third example, painted with spotted deer, was included in the exhibition Chinese Painted Enamels of the 18th Century, Chinese Porcelain Company, New York, 1993, cat. no. 11. 

Emile Goubert was a forensic doctor who lived in China in the second half of the 19th century and amassed a large collection of Chinese art.