YONGZHENG PERIOD (1723-1735)

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A CHENGHUA-STYLE DOUCAI JAR
YONGZHENG PERIOD (1723-1735)
The body is delicately painted and enamelled with five shaped cartouches containing lotus flowers, interspersed with lotus sprays and tricorn motifs between bands of overlapping petals. The base is inscribed with an apocryphal Chenghua mark.
4 5/8 in. (11.5 cm.) high, box

Provenance

Sold at Sotheby’s New York, 14 September 2011, lot 343 (one of a pair)

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Lot Essay

Jars of this pattern were made to emulate the Chenghua doucai prototypes, such as the example in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Catalogue of the Special Exhibition of Ch’eng-Hua Porcelain Wares, Taipei, 2003, p. 131, no. 117. Compare another jar of this pattern bearing a Yongzheng mark with cover sold at Christie’s London, 19 June 2001, lot 104.

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