A PAIR OF DOUCAI 'FLORAL BOUQUET' BOWLS

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A PAIR OF DOUCAI 'FLORAL BOUQUET' BOWLS
ENCIRCLED YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARKS AND OF THE PERIOD

Each well potted and delicately painted and enamelled in soft tones around the exterior with six bouquets of daisies in shaded hues of blue, yellow and iron-red, divided by foliate arabesques emerging from the base and from below a blue and yellow ruyi band around the rim, the interior medallion decorated with a central bouquet encircled by florettes and further arabesques, all within double-line borders
6 in. (15.1 cm.) diam. (2)

Lot Essay

The design on the present lot proliferated on a number of bowls that have been sold at auction, including a pair from the Edward T. Chow collection, sold in Hong Kong, 25 November 1980, lot 128. Compare also this doucai decoration on larger vessels from the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Wucai, Doucai: Porcelains in Polychrome and Contrasting Colours, The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, 1999, pl. 224, a garlic-head globular vase, and pl. 225, a meiping.

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