A FINE AND VERY RARE DOUCAI BOWL

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A FINE AND VERY RARE DOUCAI BOWL
YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN DOUBLE-CIRCLES AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)

Finely potted with rounded sides raised on a tall, slightly tapered foot, decorated around the exterior with three crane medallions in soft underglaze-blue and surrounded by yellow and iron-red blossoms, each supported on leafy sprigs bearing an iron-red flower and bud, the interior with a central medallion enclosing a single floral spray, all within blue borders
4 7/8 in. (12.3 cm.) diam., box

Lot Essay

The present lot is based on an earlier Kangxi-period bowl with an identical design; cf. the example from the T. Y. Chao Collection, sold Sotheby's Hong Kong, 18 November 1986, lot 139. The only other published bowl with this rare pattern and Yongzheng reign mark was included in the Exhibition of Chinese Art, Messrs. C. T. Loo, New York, 1941, Catalogue no. 729.

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