Lot Essay
A dish of this pattern from the Simon Kwan collection was included in the exhibition Imperial Porcelain of Late Qing, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1983, Catalogue, no. 33
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A DOUCAI OGEE DISH
DAOGUANG SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD
Painted to the centre of the interior with a full-faced flower-head with overlapping petals, encircled by four peach and four stylised lotus-blossom scrolls, the wide rim decorated with the eight Daoist Emblems, tied to ribboned flowers, the exterior with a foliate scroll bearing fantastic flowers above a ruyi border (faint hairline)--7 7/8in. (20cm.) diam.
DAOGUANG SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD
Painted to the centre of the interior with a full-faced flower-head with overlapping petals, encircled by four peach and four stylised lotus-blossom scrolls, the wide rim decorated with the eight Daoist Emblems, tied to ribboned flowers, the exterior with a foliate scroll bearing fantastic flowers above a ruyi border (faint hairline)--7 7/8in. (20cm.) diam.