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A DOUCAI CONICAL BOWL AND DOMED COVER

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A DOUCAI CONICAL BOWL AND DOMED COVER
ENCIRCLED YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARKS AND OF THE PERIOD

Brightly painted and enamelled with a green and a yellow five-clawed dragon chasing flaming pearls amidst cloud and flame scrolls, the rim with six small indentations, the rim of the cover and the base with breaking waves (small cover rim chip restored and related crack)
8in. (20.5cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

Cf. the covered example illustrated by Jenyns, Later Chinese Porcelain, 1951, pl. XCIV, fig. 3, sold in our New York Rooms, 28 June 1984, lot 448; an example illustrated in the Museum fur Ostasiatiche Kunst, Koln, 1965, Lostbare Chinesische Keramik, Catalogue, col. pl. XVII, no. 134a, sold in our London Rooms, 8 June 1987, lot 52; one in the Avery Brundage Collection, illustrated in the Catalogue, pl. LXXIII C; and another in the British Museum illustrated by Hobson, The Later Ceramic Wares of China, pl. LV, fig. 1.

Bowls and covers of this design also sold in these Rooms, 20 March 1990, lot 654; and in our London Rooms, 11 June 1990, lot 155.

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