A DOUCAI 'MARRIAGE' BOWL, the deep sides painted and enamelled around 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 with another pair of ducks, one in flight, above another swimming within a lotus pond below a band of lanca characters around the rim, Daoguang seal mark and of the period

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A DOUCAI 'MARRIAGE' BOWL, the deep sides painted and enamelled around 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 with another pair of ducks, one in flight, above another swimming within a lotus pond below a band of lanca characters around the rim, Daoguang seal mark and of the period
16.5cm. diam.

Lot Essay

Cf. a similar example in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong, Qing Porcelain from the Palace Museum Collection,Catalogue no. 73; another illustrated in The Wonders of the Potters Palatte, Qing Ceramics from the Collection of The Hong Kong Museum of Art, Catalogue, no.67.

A pair of doucai 'swimming ducks' bowls was sold in our Rooms, 12 December 1989, from the estate of the late Colonel B.A. Van Gulik; previously in the collection of Robert Van Gulik, author of the 'Judge Dee' Chinese mystery stories

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