A DOUCAI AND ANHUA-DECORATED SAUCER DISH

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A DOUCAI AND ANHUA-DECORATED SAUCER DISH
QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY

Finely potted and decorated in the centre in Ming style with a green trefoil bloom with prominent iron-red stamens, borne on and encircled by a slender leafy stem, within double line borders repeated at the rim, the sides with two dragon and phoenix pairs in anhua technique, the exterior with a similar frieze of trefoil blooms and leaves, all between bands of classic scroll and overlapping petals with triple stamens, with an apocryphal six-character Chenghua mark
8 in. (20.3 cm.) diam.

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Yongzheng-marked dishes of this pattern are in the S.C. Ko Tianminlou Collection, illustrated in Tianminlou Cang Ci, Hong Kong, 1987, no. 95; and in the Reemtsma Collection, included in the Hamburg Museum fur Kunst und Gewerke Exhibition, Tausend Jahre Chinesiche Keramik, 1974, Catalogue no. 209. Compare also another similar dish with a Chenghua mark, sold in our New York Rooms, 1 June 1990, lot 327.

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