YONGZHENG PERIOD (1723-1735)

Details

A FINE PAIR OF DOUCAI 'LOTUS' WASHERS
YONGZHENG PERIOD (1723-1735)
Each finely potted in imitation of its Ming prototype with gentle rounded sides rising from a recessed base, delicately painted in underglaze blue and enamelled on the exterior with lotus sprays, each supporting a bowl containing an auspicious emblem, all between blue line borders, the countersunk base with an apocryphal six-character Chenghua mark within a double square.
2 3/4 in. (7 cm.) diam., box (2)

Provenance

Tai Sing Antiques Ltd., Hong Kong, 1970s

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Lot Essay

The Ming prototypes of the present doucai vessels, bearing Chenghua reign marks, are in the National Palace Museum Collection, Taipei, illustrated in Catalogue of the Special Exhibition of Ch'eng-hua Porcelain Ware, Taipei, 2003, p. 160-61, no. 157-60, where these are catalogued as 'washers'. A very similar washer formerly in the Sir Harry Garner and Elisabeth Shing collections was sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 1 Jun 2011, lot 3585.

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