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

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A PAIR OF DOUCAI 'FLORAL BOUQUET' BOWLS
YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARKS IN UNDERGLAZE-BLUE WITHIN DOUBLE CIRCLES AND OF THE PERIOD(1723-1735)
Each bowl is delicately painted and enamelled in soft tones around the exterior with six bouquets of daisies in shades of blue, yellow and iron-red, divided by foliate arabesques emerging from the base and from below a blue and yellow ruyi band around the rim. The interior medallion is decorated with a central bouquet encircled by florettes and further arabesques, all within double-line borders.
6 in. (15.3 cm.) diam.

Provenance

From a private European collection, predominantly assembled in the 1970s and 1980s.

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Lot Essay

A number of similarly decorated bowls have been sold at auction, including a pair from the Edward T. Chow collection, sold in Christies Hong Kong, 25 November 1980, lot 128. Compare also this doucai decoration on larger vessels from the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Wucai, Doucai: Porcelains in Polychrome and Contrasting Colours, The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, 1999, pl. 224, a garlic-head globular vase, and pl. 225, a meiping. Also a very similar pair of bowls with this design and from the same period were sold in Christies Hong Kong, 28 May 2014, lot 3460.

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