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DOUCAI ENAMELS

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DOUCAI ENAMELS

A FINE DOUCAI DISH
YONGZHENG SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

Painted to the interior with a mythical horned horse galloping over a storming sea, its back with a saddle cloth and a ribboned book with three craggy rocks rising out of the sea in the distance, the flat rim with scrolling clouds, the exterior with craggy rocks to the cardinal points among swirling waves--8in. (20.3cm.) diam., box

Lot Essay

Another similar dish with a mark also written in this unusual form of seal script is in the Chang Foundation and is illustrated by Spencer, Selected Chinese Ceramics from Han to Qing Dynasty, pl. 140; another with a kaishu mark is illustrated in Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong, pl. 35 from the Beijing Palace Museum

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