A DOUCAI BOWL

DAOGUANG SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

Details
A DOUCAI BOWL
DAOGUANG SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD
Enamelled on the exterior with six stylised flower sprays amongst foliage and linked C-scrolls, the interior decorated with a similar flower spray roundel within a band of flower-heads and circlets enclosing trefoils alternating with ruyi-shaped lappets

5 7/8in. (15cm.) diam.
Literature
A similar pair of bowls is from the E.T. Chow Collection is illustrated by M. Beurdeley and G. Raindre in Qing Porcelain, pl. 246; another from the Weishaupt Collection is illustrated by Avitabile, From the Dragon's Treasure, no. 18.

A similar pair of bowls sold in our London Rooms, 05 June 1995.
Exhibited
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Imperial Porcelain of Late Qing, Kwan Collection, 1983, Catalogue, no. 28
National Museum of History, Taipei, Imperial Porcelain of late Ch'ing, From the Kwan Collection, 1985, Catalogue, no. 28

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