DAOGUANG SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD
Details
A DOUCAI 'MARRIAGE' BOWL
DAOGUANG SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD
The deep rounded sides painted to the exterior with three pairs of mandarin ducks in a lotus pond, below a frieze of dragons each chasing a flaming pearl painted in underglaze-blue, the centre of the interior with another pair of ducks, below a band of lanca characters at the rim
6½in. (16.6cm.) diam.
DAOGUANG SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD
The deep rounded sides painted to the exterior with three pairs of mandarin ducks in a lotus pond, below a frieze of dragons each chasing a flaming pearl painted in underglaze-blue, the centre of the interior with another pair of ducks, below a band of lanca characters at the rim
6½in. (16.6cm.) diam.
Literature
A similar bowl was included in the Special Exhibition of Ch'eng-hua Porcelain, National Palace Museum, Taibei, 1976, Catalogue no. 87; Qianlong and Jiaqing examples were illustrated as nos. 84 and 86.
Exhibited
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Imperial Porcelain of Late Qing, Kwan Collection, 1983, Catalogue, no. 31
National Museum of History, Taipei, Imperial Porcelain of late Ch'ing, From the Kwan Collection, 1985, Catalogue, no. 31
National Museum of History, Taipei, Imperial Porcelain of late Ch'ing, From the Kwan Collection, 1985, Catalogue, no. 31