A FINE PAIR OF SMALL DOUCAI BOWLS ENCIRCLED YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARKS AND OF THE PERIOD

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A FINE PAIR OF SMALL DOUCAI BOWLS ENCIRCLED YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARKS AND OF THE PERIOD

Each with thinly potted rounded sides resting on a tapered foot, finely pencilled to the exterior with twelve iron-red bats in flight amidst scrolling clouds picked out in pale yellow, blue, aubergine, green and iron-red enamels, the interior glazed white
4in. (10cm.) diam., box (2)

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Compare with the near identical pair of bowls from the Paul and Helen Bernat Collection sold in Hong Kong, 15 November 1988, lot 1, and again in these Rooms, 20 March 1990, lot 656. Another pair of bowls of the same design, but painted with iron-red bats amid underglaze-blue clouds, sold in Hong Kong, 25 November 1980, lot 126, from the E.T. Chow Collection

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