A FINE AND RARE PAIR OF DOUCAI 'BAMBOO' BOWLS
THE PROPERTY OF AN ASIAN GENTLEMAN
A FINE AND RARE PAIR OF DOUCAI 'BAMBOO' BOWLS

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A FINE AND RARE PAIR OF DOUCAI 'BAMBOO' BOWLS
YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARKS WITHIN DOUBLE-SQUARES AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)

Each finely potted with rounded sides, the exterior delicately painted in shades of translucent green enamel with pencilled underglaze-blue outlines with two clusters of leafy bamboo growing from above the foot upwards towards the rim and around the sides of the bowl
3 3/4 in. (9.5 cm.) diam. (2)
Literature
Sotheby's Thirty Years in Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 2003, p. 185, no. 187

Lot Essay

Previously sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 27 April 2003, lot 195.

Cf. Yongzheng bowls of this design, one in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Wucai, Doucai, The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 1999, pl. 221; a pair included in the Hong Kong Museum of Art exhibition Splendour of the Qing Dynasty, 1992, illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 175; two bowls in the National Palace Museum, Taiwan, one in the Illustrated Catalogue of Ch'ing Dynasty Porcelain, pl. 91, and the other included in the Museum's Special Exhibition of K'ang-hsi, Yung-cheng and Ch'ien-lung Porcelain, 1986, illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 45; one in the Seikado Bunko, Tokyo, illustrated in the revised Sekai Toji Zenshu, vol. 15, pls. 41 and 42; and another from the Goldschmidt Collection, sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 13 November 1990, lot 34.

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