A FINE PAIR OF DOUCAI 'DAOIST EMBLEMS' BOWLS
A FINE PAIR OF DOUCAI 'DAOIST EMBLEMS' BOWLS
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A FINE PAIR OF DOUCAI 'DAOIST EMBLEMS' BOWLS

YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARKS WITHIN DOUBLE CIRCLES AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)

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A FINE PAIR OF DOUCAI 'DAOIST EMBLEMS' BOWLS
YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARKS WITHIN DOUBLE CIRCLES AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)
Each bowl is finely painted and enamelled on the exterior with the Eight Daoist Emblems, Anbaxian, between a band of ruyi-heads around the foot and an interlinked C-scroll in underglaze-blue below the everted mouth rim. The interior is simiarly decorated with two peaches on a leafy branch within double circles in the well.
5 1/4 in. (13.3 cm.) diam. (2)
Provenance
An American private collection
Sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 25 October 1993, lot 842
Exhibited
On loan to the Denver Museum of Art, 1995-2005

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Nick Wilson
Nick Wilson

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The Anbaxian or 'The Concealed Eight Immortals' are iconic symbols that identifies each of the eight Daoist immortals. These include: the double-gourd, a token of Li Tieguai; the fan (Han Zhongli); the fish-drum (Zhang Guolao); a flute (Han Xiangzi); a pair of castanets of positive and negative forces (Cao Guojiu); a basket of flowers (Lan Caihe); a ladle and a long-stalked lotus blossom (He Xiangu) and a double-edged sword (Lü Dongbin).

A pair of Yongzheng bowls of this design from the T.Y. Chao Collection was included in the exhibition, Ch'ing Porcelain from the Wah Kwong Collection, Art Gallery of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1973, no. 89. Other single examples include the bowl illustrated in The Tsui Museum of Art - Chinese Ceramics IV, Qing Ceramics, Hong Kong, 1995, pl. 139; and a bowl sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 31 October 2004, lot 108.

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