A FINE DOUCAI CONICAL 'DRAGON' BOWL
A FINE DOUCAI CONICAL 'DRAGON' BOWL
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A FINE DOUCAI CONICAL 'DRAGON' BOWL

YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN DOUBLE-CIRCLES AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)

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A FINE DOUCAI CONICAL 'DRAGON' BOWL
YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN DOUBLE-CIRCLES AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)
The slightly rounded, conical sides are decorated to the exterior with two five-clawed dragons, one in green and the other in yellow tones, leaping amidst multi-coloured clouds and iron-red 'flaming pearls' above a band of foam-specked, wind-tossed waves in green enamels and underglaze-blue. The rim is moulded with six subtle notches beneath a narrow gilt band.
7 5/8 in. (19.3 cm.) diam.
Provenance
Stephen Junkunc, III
Sold at Christie's New York, 21 September 1995, lot 256

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Lot Essay

A pair of similarly decorated covered bowls, from the Palace Museum, Beijing, is illustrated in Kangxi Yongzheng Qianlong, Qing Porcelain from the Palace Museum Collection, Forbidden City Press, 1989, p. 201, pl. 30; another pair with Yongzheng marks in standard script is illustrated in Qing Imperial Porcelain of the Kangxi, Yongzheng, and Qianlong Reigns, Hong Kong, 1995, pl. 52; and a pair illustrated by S. Jenyns, Later Chinese Porcelain, London, 1951, pl. XCIV, fig. 3, was sold at Christie's New York, 28 June 1984, lot 448.

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