A VERY RARE MING-STYLE DOUCAI BOWL

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A VERY RARE MING-STYLE DOUCAI BOWL
ENCIRCLED YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

The finely potted bowl with rounded sides rising to a slightly flaring rim, the exterior painted and enamelled with a lotus meander, the blossoms in yellow and iron-red with contrasting centers, alternately full-faced and in profile issuing from a slender undulating stem with green and yellow curled leaves, the interior with a frieze of detached lotus sprays picked out in aubergine, yellow, green, and iron-red encircling a central medallion enclosing a stylized flower with radiating petals, all within single and double-line borders
4 5/8 in. (11.2 cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

Ccompare with two other published pairs of Yongzheng-marked bowls of this rare Chenghua-style design and size, one from the Edward T. Chow collection, sold in Hong Kong, 19 May 1981, lot 555; the other illustrated in Tsui Museum, Chinese ceramics IV, pl. ????(CHECK TITLE TOO),

Compare also a pair of Yongzheng-marked cups of smaller size but of similar design included in the joint Exhibition from the Collections of the Percival David Foundation and C.P. Lin, Elegant Form and Harmonious Decoration, Catalogue, no. 143.

(US$20,000-24,000)

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