A RARE DOUCAI 'BAMBOO' BOWL
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A RARE DOUCAI 'BAMBOO' BOWL

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A RARE DOUCAI 'BAMBOO' BOWL
YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN A DOUBLE SQUARE AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)

Finely potted with rounded sides, the exterior delicately painted in shades of translucent green enamel with pencilled underglaze-blue outlines with stands of leafy bamboo growing from above the foot upwards towards the rim and around the sides of the bowl (short rim hairline)
3 15/16 in. (10 cm.) diam., box

Lot Essay

Cf. a slightly smaller Yongzheng bowl with a very similar design in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Wucai, Doucai - The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 1999, pl. 221; a pair of different shape included in the Hong Kong Museum of Art exhibition Splendour of the Qing Dynasty, 1992, illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 175; two bowls in the National Palace Museum, Taiwan, one in the Illustrated Catalogue of Ch'ing Dynasty Porcelain, pl. 91, and the other included in the Museum's Special Exhibition of K'ang-hsi, Yung-cheng and Ch'ien-lung Porcelain, 1986, illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 45; and another from the Goldshmidt Collection, sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 13 November 1990, lot 34.

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