A VERY FINE AND RARE DOUCAI FLORAL-SCROLL BOWL

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A VERY FINE AND RARE DOUCAI FLORAL-SCROLL BOWL
ENCIRCLED YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

The bowl delicately painted and enamelled to the exterior in brilliant colours, with alternating motifs of peonies in iron-red and mallows in yellow or purple, amidst densely scrolling stems issuing large curled leaves, buds and flowers, the interior decorated in the centre with an encircled medallion of a single iron-red tree-peony surrounded by undulating stems and green leaves, all between single and double underglaze-blue line borders
5 1/4 in. (13.3 cm.) diam., box

Lot Essay

It is quite rare to find a doucai bowl with this decoration. However, a very similar example from the collection of Brian S. McElney was included in the Min Chiu Society Thirtieth Anniversary Exhibition, Selected Treasures of Chinese Art, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1990, Catalogue, no. 163.

Another Yongzheng marked bowl of slightly smaller size is in the Geronimo Berenguer de los Reyes Jr. Foundation, and illustrated in Catalogue, no. 17.

(US$60,000-80,000)

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