A FINE AND RARE SMALL DOUCAI WATERPOT

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A FINE AND RARE SMALL DOUCAI WATERPOT
QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEALMARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

Of globular form, delicately painted in underglaze-blue and bright enamels with four iron-red bats suspended over lotus blossoms, amidst dense foliage of smaller blossoms and curly tendrils, all between multi-coloured upright lappets around the foot and a ruyi collar at the mouthrim
2 1/8 in. (5.4 cm.) high

Provenance

The Goldschmidt Collection, sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 13 November 1990, lot 37

Lot Essay

Previously sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 20 November 1984, lot 498.

A doucai waterpot of this design is illustrated by J. Ayers, The Baur Collection, vol. 4, Geneva, 1974, pl. A571; and another from the collection of Mr. And Mrs. Albert Nipon of Gladwyne, Pennsylvania, was included in the exhibition Qing Mark and Period Monochromes and Enamelled Wares, Messrs. S. Marchant & Son, London, 1981, illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 49. Two others were sold in these Rooms, on 1 October 1991, lot 865, and on 29 September 1992, lot 565.

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