Lot 332
332
A LARGE DOUCAI BOWL

Details
A LARGE DOUCAI BOWL
KANGXI MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD

The deep, rounded sides decorated on the exterior with five fruiting or flowering tree roundels separated by pairs of pomegranate sprigs above a band of pale green and yellow leaf tips, with a central medallion of pale green fronds, all within double line borders, etched collector's mark, short foot rim crack--7 1/2 in. (19cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

The early Ming prototype of this pattern in doucai can be seen on a Chenghua-marked bowl in the National Palace Musuem, Taipei, included in the exhibition Chenghua Porcelain, illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 106