Lot 2990
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A VERY RARE PAIR OF DOUCAI WATER POTS
A VERY RARE PAIR OF DOUCAI WATER POTS
A VERY RARE PAIR OF DOUCAI WATER POTS
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A VERY RARE PAIR OF DOUCAI WATER POTS

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

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A VERY RARE PAIR OF DOUCAI WATER POTS
YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARKS IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN DOUBLE CIRCLES AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)
Each vessel is finely painted and enamelled around the incurving sides with swirling clouds circling the base and rising to two tall trailing formations, the clouds formed as overlapping whorls with ribbed edges picked-out in delicate tones of green, aubergine, blue, yellow and highlighted with iron-red, the interior and base with a transparent glaze.
2 3/8 in. (6 cm.) diam., box
Provenance
C.T. Loo (private collection), Paris, no. 100
Paul Bernat (1902-1998) and Helen Bernat (1908-1993)
Sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, The Paul and Helen Bernat Collection of Important Qing Imperial Porcelain, 15 November 1988, lot 9
Eskenazi, London
The Shimentang Collection
Literature
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, Sotheby’s Hong Kong – Twenty Years, Hong Kong, 1993, p. 193, no. 252
Eskenazi, Qing porcelain from a private collection, London, 2012, no. 3
Exhibited
Eskenazi, Qing porcelain from a private collection, London, 1-23 November 2012
On loan to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Missouri, 2013-2017

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Lot Essay

Doucai water pots of this design are very rare. Only four other examples appear to be recorded. A single water pot is in the Nanjing Museum, illustrated in Qing Imperial Porcelain, Hong Kong, 1995, no. 58; another single pot (and possibly the pair to the Nanjing example) is in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures from the Palace Museum, Small Refined Articles of the Study, Shanghai, 2009, p. 223, no. 221; and a pair formerly in the collections of Jingguantang and Greenwald, was sold at Bonhams Hong Kong, 2 June 2016, lot 12.
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