A FINE PAIR OF DOUCAI FLARING BOWLS
Jiaqing seal marks and of the period

Fine Chinese Art

16 May 2024, 10:00 BST

London, New Bond Street

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A FINE PAIR OF DOUCAI FLARING BOWLS

Jiaqing seal marks and of the period
Each painted in underglaze blue and enamelled in iron-red, green and gilt around the exterior with five medallions of fruiting and flowering trees between pomegranate sprays above a band of overlapping stylised ruyi-heads at the foot, wood stands.
Each 15.6cm (6 1/8 in) diam. (4).

Footnotes

Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價

清嘉慶鬥彩描金團花馬蹄式碗一對
青花「大清嘉慶年製」篆書款

Provenance: Sotheby's London, 7 December 1993, lot 286
An important European private collection

來源: 倫敦蘇富比，1993年12月7日，拍品編號286
歐洲重要私人收藏

Bowls of this type seem to draw inspiration from prototypes originating in the Kangxi period. See a doucai bowl with similar decoration but of different form, Kangxi, in the Qing Court Collection, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Porcelains in Polychrome and Contrasting Colours, Hong Kong, 1999, p.216. This distinctive pattern persisted through subsequent reigns, with documented instances from the Qianlong, Jiaqing, and Daoguang periods. Compare with a single doucai flaring bowl, Jiaqing seal mark, illustrated in Treasures in the Royalty: The Official Kiln Porcelain of the Chinese Qing Dynasty, Shanghai, 2003, p.363.

See one doucai bowl, Jiaqing seal mark and of the period, which was sold at Christie's London, 3 November 2020, lot 165.

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