A FINE DOUCAI CONICAL BOWL

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

The slightly rounded, flaring sides finely painted on the exterior with a bird perched on a blossoming branch of crab apple overlapping a branch of prunus extending to one side, with a swallow swooping towards the foot rim on the reverse, all within blue line borders, the rim gilded
7 5/8in. (19.3cm.) diam.
Provenance
Nagatani, 1946
Stephen Junkunc, III

Lot Essay

Compare the bowl in the Shanghai Museum illustrated in Chugoku Toji Zenshu, vol. 21, pl. 104; one with a cover in the British Museum illustrated by Hobson, The Later Ceramic Wares of China, London, 1924, pl. LV, fig. l; and another with a matching cover in the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol. 8, Tokyo, 1982, col. pl. 65. Two views of another bowl with matching cover are also illustrated in Zhongguo taoci daxi (Chinese Ceramic Series), Qingdai taoci daquan (Qing Ceramics), Taipei, 1987-89, p. 156