GRAND PLAT EN PORCELAINE DOUCAI

CHINE, DYNASTIE QING, MARQUE A SIX CARACTERES EN CACHET EN BLEU SOUS COUVERTE ET EPOQUE QIANLONG (1736-1795)

Details

GRAND PLAT EN PORCELAINE DOUCAI
CHINE, DYNASTIE QING, MARQUE A SIX CARACTERES EN CACHET EN BLEU SOUS COUVERTE ET EPOQUE QIANLONG (1736-1795)
The interior is finely enamelled with two confronting stylized phoenix, surrounded by four lotus blooms, each brightly enamelled in a different color and borne on leafy tendrils. The border is brightly enamelled with the Eight Buddhist Emblems, bajixiang, interspersed with wispy clouds picked out in underglaze blue, iron-red and green enamels. The reverse is decorated with large lotus blooms and sprigs; restorations.
20 in. (51 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Collection of the late Laurent Kadé (1933-1990), France, and thence by descent to the present owner.

Further details

A LARGE DOUCAI 'PHOENIX' CHARGER
CHINA, QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

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Lot Essay

Compare to a large dish with a similar design, including one in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Wucai, Doucai: Porcelains in Polychrome and Contrasting Colours, Hong Kong, 1999, pl. 231. Another example was exhibited in the Chinese University of Hong Kong joint exhibition, Qing Imperial Porcelain of the Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong Reigns, 1995, illustrated in the catalogue, no. 104.

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