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THE PROPERTY OF A NORTH AMERICAN COLLECTOR
1830
A VERY RARE PAIR OF DOUCAI 'MANDARIN DUCK'
DISHES
YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARKS IN
UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN DOUBLE CIRCLES AND
OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)
The interior of each dish is delicately decorated in the center
with a scene of two mandarin ducks swimming in a pond
around a large lotus plant rising from the rippling water, the
design repeated as a frieze on the exterior below a narrow
band of six five-clawed dragons chasing flaming pearls, all
within blue line borders.
6¬ in. (17.4 cm.) diam., cloth boxes (2)

$150,000-250,000
PROVENANCE:
Mrs. Carsten D. Muller Collection.
Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., 13-14 February 1952, lot 192.

A few doucai dishes of this particular pattern and size have
been published. A similar example dated to the Yongzheng
period is illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures
of the Palace Museum - 38 - Wucai, Doucai, Beijing, 1999,
no. 216. Another example is in The Metropolitan Museum of
Art and illustrated in Oriental Ceramics in the World's Great
Collections, 1982, vol. 11, no. 144. A pair of similar dishes, also
(base)
dated to the Yongzheng period, is illustrated by E.T. Chow
and F.S. Drake "Kuan-Yao and Min-Yao, A Study on Imperial
Porcelain and People's Porcelain from K'ang-hsi to the end
of the Ch'ing Dynasty", Archives of the Chinese Art Society
of America, XIII, 1959, pl. I, figs. I and 2. Another pair is
illustrated in Ch'ing Porcelain from the Wah Kwong Collection,
Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1973, no. 85; and again
in Ming and Ch'ing Porcelain from the Collection of the T.Y.
Chao Family Foundation, Hong Kong, 1978, no. 62, and was
subsequently sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 19 May 1987, lot
268.

清雍正 鬥彩蓮池鴛鴦紋臥足盤一對 雙圈六字楷書款
(marks)