A FINE DOUCAI 'NARCISSUS' DISH

DOUCAI ENAMELS

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A FINE DOUCAI 'NARCISSUS' DISH
ENCIRCLED YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

The centre delicately painted in the medallion with narcissus in cream enamels, a red-berried nandina and a small coral and aubergine lingzhi springing up from between tufts of grass and graceful pencilled and shaded ornamental rockwork in underglaze-blue, the reverse with three further clusters of rocks, two with bamboo and lingzhi, one with further narcissus, the last with fruiting nandina, all within double-line borders, small glaze flaw to base underside--8¼in. (21cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

Several Yongzheng dishes of this pattern are recorded. Cf. illustrated examples in Min Shin no Bijutsu, pl. 160; in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, vol. I, no. 1065; and a pair which was included in the Exhibition of Ming and Ch'ing Porcelain from the Collection of the T.Y. Chao Family Foundation, Hong Kong, 1977, Catalogue, no. 64

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