A RARE DOUCAI MOULDED 'LOTUS' DISH

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A RARE DOUCAI MOULDED 'LOTUS' DISH
ENCIRCLED YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

The flared sides moulded with tiers of lotus petals radiating out towards the barbed rim, decorated on the interior with a medallion of Tibetan characters in iron-red within green enamel and iron-red ruyi bands separated by a triple-line border in underglaze blue, surrounded by two rows of pale yellow and pale green petals overlapping a third row of barbed petals alternate enclosing further Tibetan characters and the Eight Daoist Emblems, hongbao, repeated on the narrow band of iron-red petals encircling the small foot, all within fine pencilled blue line borders (tiny rim frits and glaze chips)
7 1/2 in. (19 cm.) diam., box

Literature

The Tsui Museum of Art, Chinese Ceramics, vol. IV, pl. 134.

Lot Essay

Compare with a Yongzheng marked dish from the same group sold in our New York Rooms, 1 June 1990, lot 328.

An example of the Wanli blue and white prototype, in the Institut Neerlandais, Paris, is illustrated by Daisy Lion-Goldschmidt, Ming Porcelain, pl. 215, 215a, where she mentions that these bowls were probably intended to hold offerings in Lamaist Buddhist temples.

(US$8,000-10,000)

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