A PAIR OF WUCAI 'DRAGON AND PHOENIX' BOWLS

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A PAIR OF WUCAI 'DRAGON AND PHOENIX' BOWLS
DAOGUANG SEAL MARKS AND OF THE PERIOD

Each exterior painted with striding green and red dragons amidst flower-sprays in pursuit of flaming pearls divided by two descending phoenix, all beneath a narrow band with the Eight Buddhist Emblems, bajixiang, interspersed with ruyi-heads, the interior with an ascending dragon reaching for a flaming pearl amidst fire scrolls--5 7/8in. (15cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

A Daoguang example from the Simon Kwan Collection was included in the Chinese University of Hong Kong Exhibition of Imperial Porcelain of the Late Qing, 1983, Catalogue, no. 44; another is illustrated by Van Oort, Chinese Porcelain of the 19th and 20th Centuries, pl. 17

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