THE PROPERTY OF A LADY
A PAIR OF DOUCAI OGEE DISHES

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A PAIR OF DOUCAI OGEE DISHES
QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEALMARKS AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

Each painted and enamelled to the sunken interior medallion with a full-faced flowerhead encircled by four peaches and stylised lotus-blossom scrolls, the rounded flaring rim with the eight Daoist emblems, anbaxian, tied to flower sprays with fluttering ribbons, the exterior with exotic blooms on a foliate scroll above a colourful ruyi band around the foot
7 7/8 in. (20 cm.) diam., stands (2)
Provenance
Previously sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 1 May 1994, lot 697

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Qianlong dishes of this pattern are in the Tokyo National Museum, illustrated in the Catalogue of Tokyo National Museum: Chinese Ceramics, vol. 2, Tokyo, 1990, pl. 593; in the Umezawa Kinenkan Museum, Tokyo, illustrated in Toji Takei, vol. 46, Tokyo, 1973, pl. 28; a single dish of this shape and design was included in the exhibition Ch'ing Polychrome Porcelain, The Oriental Ceramic Society of Hong Kong, 1977, and illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 83; and another was included in the exhibition, Qing Imperial Porcelain, Nanjing Museum and The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1995, illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 106.

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