UNDERGLAZE-BLUE DAOGUANG SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1821-50)

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A FINE PAIR OF DOUCAI BOWLS
Underglaze-blue Daoguang seal mark and of the period (1821-50)
Each enamelled on the exterior with six stylised floral bouquets encompassed by a festooned flower-scroll, the interior further enriched by a band of florettes and petals within interlinked arching trefoils encircling a single flower-spray
6 in. (15.2 cm.) diam., box (2)

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Lot Essay

A similar pair from the E. T. Chow Collection is illustrated by Beurdeley and Raindre in Qing Porcelain, Fribourg, 1987, pl. 246; another from the Simon Kwan Collection, exhibited at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1983, illustrated in Imperial Porcelain of the Late Qing, Hong Kong, 1983, no. 28 and sold in our Singapore Rooms, 30 march 1997, lot 384; and a further example was exhibited in the Wonders of the Potter's Palette, Qing Ceramics from the Collection of the Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1984, no. 101.

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