Sale 1877
New York
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19 September 2007
Price realised
USD 11,250
Estimate
A RARE PAIR OF DOUCAI-DECORATED BOWLS KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722) Each painted with a peach tree with spreading branches issuing from a large blue rock on one side and the cloud-enveloped sun within a cloud cartouche on the reverse, with two fish swimming in the band of flower-scattered waves on the lower body, with a related medallion on the interior, apocryphal Chenghua marks on the base 7¼ in. (18.4 cm.) diam. (2)
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