A FINE PAIR OF DOUCAI 'FLORAL BOUQUET' BOWLS
THE PROPERTY OF A JAPANESE GENTLEMAN
A FINE PAIR OF DOUCAI 'FLORAL BOUQUET' BOWLS

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A FINE PAIR OF DOUCAI 'FLORAL BOUQUET' BOWLS
DAOGUANG SIX-CHARACTER SEALMARKS AND OF THE PERIOD (1821-1850)

Each enamelled to the exterior with six stylised floral bouquets encompassed by a festooned flower-scroll below a blue and yellow cloud border, the interior further enriched by a band of florettes and petals within interlinked arching trefoils encircling a single flower-spray, all within double-line borders
6 in. (15.2 cm.) diam., box (2)
Provenance
Hirano Kotoken

Lot Essay

A similar pair from the Edward T. Chow collection is illustrated by M. Beurdeley and G. Raindre, Qing Porcelain, Fribourg, 1986, pl. 246; another from the Simon Kwan Collection, was exhibited at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Imperial Porcelain of the Late Qing, 1983, illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 28, and sold in our Singapore Rooms, 30 March 1997, lot 384; and a further example was exhibited at the Hong Kong Museum of Art, Wonders of the Potter's Palette, and illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 101.

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