QING DOUCAI
A FINE DOUCAI DRAGON BOWL

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

The slightly rounded, conical sides decorated on the exterior in bright tones with two five-clawed dragons wildly leaping amidst multi-colored clouds and iron-red flaming pearls above a band of foam-specked, wind-tossed waves in green glaze and underglaze blue, one dragon glazed green, the other yellow, all below a rim molded with six subtle notches beneath a narrow band of gilding
7 5/8in. (19.3cm.) diam.
Provenance
Stephen Junkunc, III

Lot Essay

A covered bowl of this pattern in the Avery Brundage Collection is illustrated in the Catalogue of Chinese Ceramics, pl. LXXIII C, and a pair illustrated by Jenyns, Later Chinese Porcelain, London, 1951, pl. XCIV (3), was sold in these rooms June 28/29, 1984, lot 448

Compare, also, the example included in the exhibition, Kostbare Chinesische Keramick, Museum fur Ostasiatische Kunst, Köln, Catalogue, pl. XVIII and sold in our London rooms, June 8, 1987, lot 52; and another bowl of this pattern was sold in our Hong Kong rooms, March 20, 1990, lot 654