A FINE DOUCAI 'MARRIAGE' BOWL

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A FINE DOUCAI 'MARRIAGE' BOWL
DAOGUANG SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

The deep bowl painted to the exterior with three pairs of mandarin ducks within a dense flowering lotus pond, below a frieze of six striding dragons chasing flaming pearls, the base of the interior painted with another pair of ducks, one in flight above another swimming within a lotus pond below a band of lanca characters at the rim--6½in. (16.5cm.) diam., box

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Lot Essay

A pair of Daoguang bowls of this design are illustrated by Gulland, Chinese Porcelain, vol. II, nos. 884 and 885; another from the Simon Kwan Collection was exhibited at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1983, Imperial Porcelain of the Late Qing, and illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 31.

Similar bowls sold in these Rooms, 20 March 1990, lot 658A, and another two on 8 October 1990, lots 510 and 511

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