A RARE DOUCAI CONICAL 'SWALLOWS' BOWL
A RARE DOUCAI CONICAL 'SWALLOWS' BOWL

YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN A DOUBLE-CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)

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A RARE DOUCAI CONICAL 'SWALLOWS' BOWL
YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN A DOUBLE-CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)
The exterior of the bowl is decorated with swallows and prunus flowers, with the mouth and foot rims encircled by double-line borders.
7 ¾ in. (19.6 cm.) diam.
Provenance
Sotheby's New York, 28 September 1979, lot 321.
From a private European collection amassed in the 1970s.

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Lot Essay

A very similar example with gilt rims from the Palace Museum collection in Beijing is illustrated in Porcelains in Polychrome and Contrasting Colours, The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 1999, no. 223. Another comparable bowl in the collection of the British Museum is illustrated by R.L. Hobson, The Later Ceramic Wares of China, London, 1925, pl. LV, fig. 1.

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