A DOUCAI CONICAL BOWL

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A DOUCAI CONICAL BOWL
YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD

The exterior of the widely flared sides finely decorated with four floral roundels depicting peony, lotus, prunus, chrysanthemum and begonia, separated above and below by detached lotus spandrels, with a pair of butterflies forming a medallion on the interior, all in pale underglaze blue outline filled in with delicate shades of yellow, green, pink and mauve enamel and iron-red and within blue double line borders
8 13/16in. (22.4cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

Compare the similar Yongzheng bowl in the Chang Foundation, included in the exhibition Selected Chinese Ceramics from Han to Qing Dynasties, Taipei, 1990, and illustrated by James Spencer in the Catalogue, no. 141. As on the present example the peonies and lotus blossoms in the exterior roundels are alternately painted in iron-red or pinkish lavender. See, also, the bowl in the Palace Museum, illustrated in Kangxi. Yongzheng. Qianlong., Hong Kong, 1989, p. 31