A FINE AND RARE PAIR OF DOUCAI 'EIGHT IMMORTALS' BOWLS
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A FINE AND RARE PAIR OF DOUCAI 'EIGHT IMMORTALS' BOWLS

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A FINE AND RARE PAIR OF DOUCAI 'EIGHT IMMORTALS' BOWLS
YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARKS WITHIN CIRCLES AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)

Finely pencilled and enamelled in brilliant tones of iron-red, yellow, aubergine, green and black around the exterior of each with a frieze of the Eight Immortals in billowing clothes with their attributes supported on cloud scrolls encircling the base and extending behind each figure, the central medallion containing the Three Star Gods: Shouxing, Luxing and Fuxing, in a garden beneath an arched pine tree
4 1/4in. (10.6cm.) diam., box (2)

Lot Essay

Previously sold in these Rooms, 31 October 1994, lot 617.

Bowls of this type decorated in doucai enamels are extremely rare. Only two other pairs of doucai bowls of this pattern appear to have been sold at auction, at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 20 November 1984, lot 501 and another pair at Christie's London, 4 December 1995, lot 153.

Blue and white bowls of this pattern are more common and were produced throughout the Qing dyansty. See lots 1463 and 1464 in the present sale for Qianlong and Guangxu examples. See also a single Yongzheng-marked blue and white bowl similarly painted on the exterior, but with Shoulao and his deer in the interior roundel, from the collection of Sir Harry Garner, illustrated by S. Jenyns, Later Chinese Porcelain, London, 1971, pl.LX

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