A Doucai Marriage Bowl

DAOGUANG SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD

Details

A Doucai Marriage Bowl
Daoguang Seal Mark in Underglaze Blue and of the Period
The deep rounded sides painted with a frieze of pairs of mandarin ducks in a lotus pond below a narrow band of dragons pursuing flaming pearls amidst flames, the decoration repeated as a medallion on the interior below a band of lana characters at the rim
6.5/8in. (16.8cm.) diam.

Exhibited

London, Christie's, Important Chinese Ceramics from the Robert Chang Collection, 2 -14 June 1993, no. 118

Lot Essay

A pair of Daoguang-marked bowls is illustrated by W.G. Gulland, Chinese Porcelain, London, 1918, nos. 884 and 885. Another from the Simon Kwan Collection was included in the exhibition, Imperial Porcelain of the Late Qing, Hong Kong, 1983, no. 196, p. 149. See, also, Geng Baochang, Ming Qing Ciqi Jianding, Hong Kong, 1993, p. 305, fig. 516; and the Catalogue of a Special Exhibition of Cheng-hua Period Porcelain, National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1984, where four bowls of this pattern are illustrated, variously bearing the reign marks of Qianlong, Jiaqing, Daoguang (decorated in underglaze blue only) and one with an apochryphal Chenghua mark.

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