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Lot Essay
A bowl with similar decoration, also with a Kangxi mark, and of the period, is in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum - 38 - Porcelains in Polychrome and Contrasting Colours, Hong Kong, 1999, p. 226, pl. 207. See, also, the similar Kangxi-marked example sold in these rooms, 16 September 2011, lot 1539.
The decoration on the exterior of these Kangxi-marked doucai bowls is based on Ming dynasty blue and white prototypes, such as the Jiajing period bowl, excavated from a tomb at Xiaojia village, Chengdu city, Sichuan province, illustrated by Zhang Bai in Complete Collection of Ceramic Art Unearthed in China, vol. 10, Beijing, 2008, no. 168.
The decoration on the exterior of these Kangxi-marked doucai bowls is based on Ming dynasty blue and white prototypes, such as the Jiajing period bowl, excavated from a tomb at Xiaojia village, Chengdu city, Sichuan province, illustrated by Zhang Bai in Complete Collection of Ceramic Art Unearthed in China, vol. 10, Beijing, 2008, no. 168.