A FINE AND RARE DOUCAI 'IMMORTALS' DISH
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A FINE AND RARE DOUCAI 'IMMORTALS' DISH

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A FINE AND RARE DOUCAI 'IMMORTALS' DISH
KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)

Finely painted in underglaze-blue and delicate enamels of green, yellow and aubergine tones, on the central medallion with Shoulao seated on a rock under a pine tree, reading a scroll, with an acolyte nearby preparing incense, the cavetto encircled by the bajixiang supported on floral plinths against a foliate scroll, the exterior with a continuous frieze depicting the Eight Immortals in a riverscape, and the base centred with a roundel of a crane bearing a peach bough in its mouth, picked out in iron-red and green enamel
6 in. (15.3 cm.) diam., box
Provenance
Sir Harry Garner
Exhibited
The Oriental Ceramic Society, London, 1951, no. 84
The Oriental Ceramics Society, London, Arts of the Ch'ing Dynasty, Catalogue no. 197

Lot Essay

Dishes with this design and the addition of the unusual iron-red crane roundel on the base, include a pair from the Rogers Fund, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, illustrated by S. Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1988, p. 247, nos. 249/250; a second pair from the Paul and Helen Bernat Collection, sold twice at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 15 November 1988, lot 12, and again, 13 November 1990, lot 330; and a single dish, dated to the Yongzheng period, illustrated in Porcelains in Polychrome and Contrasting Colours, The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 1999, pl. 219.

Another pair of dishes, apparently lacking the crane medallion, was included in the Hong Kong O. C. S. Exhibition of Ch'ing Polychrome Porcelain, 1977, illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 63.

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