DAOGUANG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE-BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1821-1850)

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A COPPER-RED DECORATED 'PHOENIX' BOWL
DAOGUANG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE-BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1821-1850)
The bowl has tall rounded sides rising to a flared mouth rim, supported on a short foot. The exterior is decorated with five phoenix roundels rendered in copper-red, with small areas of apple-green. A further phoenix roundel is painted to the interior.
5 ¾ in. (14.6 cm.) diam.

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Lot Essay

Bowls with copper-red phoenix roundels are based on earlier prototypes from the Kangxi period (1662-1722). See a bowl with this design in the National Palace Museum in Taipei, exhibited in the Special Exhibition of K'ang-hsi, Yung-cheng and Ch'ien-lung Porcelain, Taipei, 1986, Catalogue, no. 7. Also compare this lot to a pair of similarly decorated bowls from the Qianlong period (1736-1795), sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 29 May 2013, lot 3216.

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