A SET OF SIX SMALL UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND YELLOW-GLAZED 'DRAGON' BOWLS

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

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A SET OF SIX SMALL UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND YELLOW-GLAZED 'DRAGON' BOWLS
DAOGUANG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARKS IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1821-1850)
The bowls have rounded sides rising to a slightly flaring rim and are decorated on the exterior with two five-clawed dragons striding through flame-scrolls in pursuit of flaming pearls above a band of overlapping lotus petals rising from the foot, all highlighted in yellow glaze against the deep cobalt blue ground. The interior is similarly decorated with a further dragon in a central medallion.
4 1/8 in. (10.3 cm.) diam.

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A nearly identical pair of Daoguang-marked 'dragon' bowls was sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 28 May 2014, lot 3479. Compare, also, to a Yongzheng-marked bowl with similar decoration in the Qing Court collection illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum- Miscellaneous Enamelled Porcelains and Plain Tricoloured Porcelains, Shanghai, 2009, p. 80, no. 64.

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