DAOGUANG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARKS IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1821-1850)

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A PAIR OF FINE DOUCAI ‘MARRIAGE’ BOWLS
DAOGUANG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARKS IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1821-1850)
Each bowl is delicately painted in underglaze-blue and enamelled on the exterior with a frieze of pairs of mandarin ducks swimming in a lotus pond below a narrow band of dragons chasing flaming pearls to the rim. The decoration is repeated as a medallion on the interior below a band of lanca characters at the rim.
6 5/8 in. (16.8 cm.) diam. (2)

Provenance

The Helen D. Ling Collection, acquired in 15 April 1972

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Lot Essay

Compare also the Daoguang bowl at the National Palace Museum, Taiwan, Special Exhibition of Ch’eng-hua Porcelain, 1976, no. 87, together with enamelled Qianlong and Jiaqing bowls of the same pattern, nos. 84 and 86, and an enamelled bowl with a Chenghua mark, no. 85.

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