Lot 781
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A PAINTED ENAMEL YELLOW-GROUND 'MEDALLION' BOWL AND A PUCE-DECORATED 'DUCK AND LOTUS' MARRIAGE BOWL
A PAINTED ENAMEL YELLOW-GROUND 'MEDALLION' BOWL AND A PUCE-DECORATED 'DUCK AND LOTUS' MARRIAGE BOWL
A PAINTED ENAMEL YELLOW-GROUND 'MEDALLION' BOWL AND A PUCE-DECORATED 'DUCK AND LOTUS' MARRIAGE BOWL
A PAINTED ENAMEL YELLOW-GROUND 'MEDALLION' BOWL AND A PUCE-DECORATED 'DUCK AND LOTUS' MARRIAGE BOWL
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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE BELGIAN COLLECTION (LOTS 781-785 INCLUSIVE)
A PAINTED ENAMEL YELLOW-GROUND 'MEDALLION' BOWL AND A PUCE-DECORATED 'DUCK AND LOTUS' MARRIAGE BOWL

THE YELLOW BOWL: QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN BLUE ENAMEL AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795), THE MARRIAGE BOWL: 18TH CENTURY

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A PAINTED ENAMEL YELLOW-GROUND 'MEDALLION' BOWL AND A PUCE-DECORATED 'DUCK AND LOTUS' MARRIAGE BOWL
THE YELLOW BOWL: QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN BLUE ENAMEL AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795), THE MARRIAGE BOWL: 18TH CENTURY
The yellow-ground bowl is decorated to the exterior with four circular roundels containing the characters Wanshou wujiang that may be translated as 'boundless longevity', together with the bajixiang, the Eight Buddhist Emblems and stylised lotus blossoms on leafy tendrils. The marriage bowl is decorated with a continuous scene of three pairs of ducks in a lotus pond below a band of dragons in pursuit of flaming pearls. The interior has a medallion enclosing a pair of Mandarin ducks below a band of lanca script at the rim. The base has a four-character mark reading Lüwu Jiu'an.

7 ¼ in. (18.5 cm.) diam. and 6 in. (15.2 cm.) diam.
Provenance
Acquired in Asia prior to 1930. Property from a Private Belgian Collection.

Lot Essay

The 'mandarin duck and lotus' design of the current marriage bowl is based on imperial porcelain examples most commonly seen in the doucai palette. These bowls were part of the repertoire of court ceramics of the 18th and 19th centuries.

For four examples of this design, variously dating to the Qianlong (1736-1795), Jiaqing (1796-1820) and Daoguang (1821-1850) reigns, see Catalogue of a Special Exhibition of Cheng-hua Period Porcelain, National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1984.
A further example from the Qianlong period (1736-1795) is illustrated in Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong: Qing Porcelain from the Palace Museum, 1989, p. 392, pl. 73.


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