Live Auction 2196Fine Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art Including Property from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections
Lot 392PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF JAMES H. KELLEY

A FINE PAIR OF DOUCAI MARRIAGE BOWLS

JIAQING SEAL MARKS IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1796-1820)

Closed15 September 2009

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A FINE PAIR OF DOUCAI MARRIAGE BOWLS
JIAQING SEAL MARKS IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1796-1820)
Each with deep rounded sides, the interior decorated with a medallion enclosing a pair of Mandarin ducks, one in flight, the other swimming in a pond with flowering lotus below a band of lanca script at the rim, the exterior with a continuous scene of three further pairs of ducks in a lotus pond below a band of scaly dragons in pursuit of flaming pearls
6½ in. (16.5 cm.) diam. (2)

Acquired circa 1960s-1974, and thence by descent within the family.

Specialist note

A bowl of this pattern, also with Jiaqing mark, is illustrated in The Official Kiln Porcelain of the Chinese Qing Dynasty, Shanghai, 2003, p. 369.
See, also, the Catalogue of Special Exhibition of Cheng-hua Period Porcelain, National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1984, where four bowls of this pattern are illustrated, variously bearing the reign marks of Qianlong, Jiaqing, Daoguang (in underglaze blue only), and one with an apochryphal Chenghua mark.