A FINE AND RARE PAIR OF DOUCAI WATER-POTS

Details

A FINE AND RARE PAIR OF DOUCAI WATER-POTS
ENCIRCLED YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARKS AND OF THE PERIOD

Each finely painted and enamelled around the incurving sides with swirling clouds circling the base and rising to two tall trailing formations, the clouds formed as overlapping whorls with ribbed edges picked-out in delicate tones of green, aubergine, blue, yellow and highlighted with iron-red, the interior and base white
2 1/8 in. (5.3 cm.) high, stands, box (2)

Literature

Porcelain of Ch'ing Dynasty, K'ang-hsi, Yung-cheng and Ch'ien-lung Periods, Min Chiu Society Exhibition, Hong Kong, 1968, Catalogue, no. 57.
An Anthology of Chinese Ceramics, Min Chiu Society Exhibition, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1980, Catalogue, no. 144.
The Tsui Museum of Art, 1991, pl. 112.
The Tsui Museum of Art, Chinese Ceramics, vol. IV, pl. 131.

Lot Essay

Doucai water-pots of this design are very rare. Only three other examples appear to be recorded, one from the Nanjing Museum was included in The Art Gallery, The Chinese University of Hong exhibition of Qing Imperial Porcelain from the Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong reigns, 1995, Catalogue, no. 58; and a pair from the Collection of C.T. Loo and Paul and Helen Bernat, sold in Hong Kong, 15 November 1988, lot 9.

The form and decoration occur more frequently in a group of Kangxi carved celadon-glazed water-pots such as the example from the Jingguantang Collection sold in these Rooms, 3 November 1996, lot 565.
(US$100,000-130,000)

More from Gods of the Buddhist Pantheon & Fine Chn Cer & WOA

View All