A FINE PAIR OF DOUCAI BOWLS

DOUCAI ENAMELS

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A FINE PAIR OF DOUCAI BOWLS
DAOGUANG SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

Each with rounded sides rising to a slightly flaring rim, enamelled to the exterior with six stylized upright flower-sprays encompassed by a festooned flower-scroll, all below a band of interlocked trefoils on a yellow ground at the rim, the interior further enriched by a band of florettes and petals within interlinked arching trefoils and almond-shaped medallions picked out in yellow, green, orange and red enamels
6 in. (15.2 cm.) diam., box (2)

Lot Essay

A similar pair from the E. T. Chow Collection is illustrated be Beurdeley and Raindre in Qing Porcelain, pl. 246; another from the Simon Kwan Collection, exhibited at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1983, is illustrated in Imperial Porcelain of the Late Qing, Catalogue, no. 28; another from the Weishaupt Collection is illustrated by G. Avitable, From the Dragon's Treasure, Catalogue, no. 18; a further example is illustrated in the Wonders of the Potters Palette, Qing Ceramics from the Collection of the Hong Kong Museum of Art, Catalogue, no. 101.

Compare with a similar pair sold in these Rooms, 1 May 1995, lot 702.

(US$12,000-16,000)

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