19TH CENTURY

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TWO LARGE DOUCAI DISHES
19TH CENTURY
Each dish is brightly enameled with a central medallion composed of two confronting stylized phoenixes encircled by four large lotus blossoms borne on sinuous, curling stems, the well decorated with the Eight Buddhist Emblems (bajixiang) amidst swirling clouds below a band of crashing waves scattered with further auspicious emblems at the rim, the exterior painted with lotus scroll with an apocryphal Qianlong seal mark on the base.
20 in. (50.8 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Nagatani, Chicago, 25 March 1965.

Exhibited

On loan: Minneapolis, Minnesota, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, May 1981-July 1992.

Lot Essay

A doucai dish of the same design, dated to the Yongzheng period, is in the collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing, and illustrated in Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum - 38 - Porcelain in Polychrome and Contrasting Colors, Hong Kong, 1999, p. 252, pl. 231. Another similar dish with a Qianlong mark, is illustrated in Qing Imperial Porcelain of the Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong Reigns, Nanjing and The Art Gallery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1995, no. 104. Compare, also, similar dishes sold at Christie’s London, 8 December 1986, lot 436 and Christie’s, Hong Kong, 29 April 2001, lot 599.

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