A PAIR OF WUCAI 'DRAGON AND PHOENIX' BOWLS
A PAIR OF WUCAI 'DRAGON AND PHOENIX' BOWLS

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A PAIR OF WUCAI 'DRAGON AND PHOENIX' BOWLS
DAOGUANG SIX-CHARACTER SEALMARKS AND OF THE PERIOD (1821-1850)

Each bowl is decorated around the exterior with two sinuous dragons, one in iron-red and the other in green enamel, in pursuit of flaming pearls, divided by two descending phoenix, amidst floral scrolls and below a band of the eight Buddhist emblems, the interior with a central medallion enclosing an iron-red dragon chasing a flaming pearl, all within double-line borders
5 1/4 in. (13.3 cm.) diam., stands (2)

Lot Essay

Previously sold in these Rooms, 17 January 1989, lot 675.

A Daoguang bowl of this pattern and equally small size is illustrated by Marchant, 'Some Interesting Pieces of Marked Ch'ing Porcelain', Hong Kong Oriental Ceramic Society Bulletin, no. 3, 1977-78, p. 43, figs. 8, 10 and 13 (left).

A slightly larger pair of bowls was included in the exhibition, The Wonders of the Potter's Palette, Qing Ceramics from the Collection of the Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1984, illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 100; another from the Edward T. Chow Collection is illustrated by M. Beurdeley and G. Raindre, Qing Porcelain, London, 1987, pl. 259; and a single example from the Simon Kwan Collection was included in the exhibition, Imperial Porcelain of the Late Qing, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1983, illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 44, and subsequently sold in our Singapore Rooms, 30 March 1997, lot 398.

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