UNDERGLAZE-BLUE DAOGUANG SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1821-50)

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A DOUCAI 'MARRIAGE' BOWL
Underglaze-blue Daoguang seal mark and of the period (1821-50)
The deep sides rounded at the base and straightening steeply towards the rim, painted and enamelled around the exterior with ducks swimming among lotus below a blue and white dragon band around the rim, the interior with a flying duck diving towards its mate in a lotus pond below a band of lanca characters around the rim, minute rim glaze chip, interior adhesions ground
6½ in. (16.5 cm.) diam.

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Lot Essay

A similar bowl was sold in our Hong Kong Rooms, 2 November 1999, lot 536 and in our Singapore Rooms, 30 March 1997, lot 388, from the Yangzhitang Collection. For a Qianlong example, see Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong, Qing Porcelain from the Palace Museum, 1989, p. 392, col. pl. 73.

The combination of the lotus and mandarin ducks forms the auspicious rebus, fu fu he he, which may be translated as 'harmony for the married couple', A Chinese-English Glossary and Illustrations of Antique, Woods, 1989, fig. 127

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