A DOUCAI ANBAXIAN OGEE DISH

QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

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A DOUCAI ANBAXIAN OGEE DISH
QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
The sunken center is decorated with a flower head surrounded by a band of conjoined alternating peaches and blue palmettes, below the Eight Daoist Emblems, anbaxian, tied with ribbons and embellished with flower sprays that decorate the rounded, flared sides, and the exterior is decorated with exotic flower scroll above a ruyi border.
7 7/8 in. (20.1 cm.) diam., Japanese wood box

Provenance

100 Selected Chinese & Korean Ceramics from the Toguri Collection; Sotheby's London, 9 June 2004, lot 2 (one of a pair).

Literature

Chinese Ceramics in the Toguri Collection, Tokyo, 1988, pl. 160 (one of a pair)

Lot Essay

Qianlong-marked dishes of this pattern are in the Tokyo National Museum, illustrated in the Catalogue of Tokyo National Museum: Chinese Ceramics, vol. 2, Tokyo, 1990, pl. 593; and in the Umezawa Kinenkan Museum, Tokyo, illustrated in Toji Taikei, vol. 46, Tokyo, 1973, pl. 28. One was included in the exhibition, Ch'ing Polychrome Porcelain, The Oriental Ceramic Society of Hong Kong, 1977, no. 83; and another in the exhibition, Qing Imperial Porcelain, Nanjing Museum and the Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1995, no. 106. See, also, the pair of bowls sold at Christie's New York, 19 March 2009, lot 559.

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