THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
A PAIR OF DOUCAI BOWLS, each finely enamelled on the exterior with six stylised flower sprays amongst scrolling foliage and linked C-scrolls, all below a lemon-yellow band reserved with underglaze-blue trefoils at the rim, the interior with a similar flower spray roundel within a band of flower-heads and circlets enclosing trefoils alternating with ruyi-shaped lappets at the centre,

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A PAIR OF DOUCAI BOWLS, each finely enamelled on the exterior with six stylised flower sprays amongst scrolling foliage and linked C-scrolls, all below a lemon-yellow band reserved with underglaze-blue trefoils at the rim, the interior with a similar flower spray roundel within a band of flower-heads and circlets enclosing trefoils alternating with ruyi-shaped lappets at the centre,

Daoguang seal marks and of the period
15cm. diam. (2)

Lot Essay

A similar pair from the E.T. Chow Collection is illustrated by M. Beurdeley and G. Raindre in Qing Porcelain, pl.246; another from the Simon Kwan Collection, exhibited at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1983, is illustrated in Imperial Porcelain of the Late Qing, Catalogue, no.28; cf. also the example from the Weishaupt Collection illustrated by G. Avitabile, From the Dragon's Treasure, Catalogue, no.18; another example is illustrated in The Wonder of the Potter's Palette, Qing Ceramics from the Collection of the Hong Kong Museum of Art, Catalogue, no.101.

A similar pair was sold in these Rooms, 9 December 1991, lot 192

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