JIAQING SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1796-1820)

Details

A FINE DOUCAI 'MARRIAGE' BOWL
JIAQING SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1796-1820)
With slightly flaring sides delicately enamelled to the exterior with pairs of mandarin ducks swimming in a lotus pond, the interior medallion with another pair of ducks, one in flight above its swimming mate, the exterior rim with a frieze of dragons chasing flaming pearls, the interior rim with a band of lança characters
6½ in. (16.5 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Sotheby's Hong Kong, 20 May 1986, lot. 109

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Lot Essay

Four bowls of this pattern are illustrated in the Catalogue of a Special Exhibition of Cheng-hua Period Porcelain, National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1984, variously bearing the reign marks of Qianlong, Jiaqing, Daoguang (decorated in underglaze blue only) and one with an apochryphal Chenghua mark. A pair of Daoguang-marked bowls are illustrated by W.G. Gulland, Chinese Porcelain, London, 1918, nos. 884 and 885. Another from the Simon Kwan Collection was included in the exhibition, Imperial Porcelain of the Late Qing, Hong Kong, 1983, no. 196, p. 149.

A pair of Daoguang-marked bowls was sold in our New York Rooms, 15 September 2009, lot 392.

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