A RARE PAIR OF CARVED RED LACQUER DOU AND COVERS

18TH CENTURY

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A RARE PAIR OF CARVED RED LACQUER DOU AND COVERS
18TH CENTURY
The stem foot, rounded bowls and domed covers unusually carved with an allover design of lingzhi fungus and bamboo, with petal-lobed metal knops
8½ in. (21.5 cm.) high

Provenance

Montgolfier Collection, Paris.

Lot Essay

It is rare to find a pair of carved lacquer dou. The form of these pedestalled offering bowls with covers was mentioned in the Book of Rites and is known since the Warring States period in both bronze and pottery. Compare a pair of woven bamboo dou of similar form and size, lacquered inside and with Qianlong six-character marks, illustrated by J.C.Y. Watt, The Sumptuous Basket, China House Gallery, China Institute in America, 1985, pp. 38-9.

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