A FINE DOUCAI 'NARCISSUS' DISH

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A FINE DOUCAI 'NARCISSUS' DISH
ENCIRCLED YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

The centre delicately painted and enamelled with narcissus and red nandina above a small butterfly in flight and lingzhi springing up between tufts of grass and rockwork in underglaze-blue, the reverse with three clusters of rocks, including bamboo and lingzhi, narcissus, and fruiting nandina, all within double-line borders, small glaze flaw to base of underside
8 1/8 in. (20.6 cm.) diam., box

Literature

The Tsui Museum of Art, Chinese Ceramics, vol. IV, pl. 144.

Lot Essay

The present example appears to be unique in its inclusion of the butterfly in an otherwise standard design.

A typical example is illustrated in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, vol. I, p. 355, no. 1065. Another from the Meiyintang Collection is illustrated in the Catalogue, Volume Two, p. 135, col. pl. 765.

(US$50,000-80,000)

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