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PROPERTY FROM AN AMERICAN PRIVATE COLLECTION
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A RARE DOUCAI-ENAMELLED ‘FLOWERING BRANCHES’
BOWL
Chenghua six-character mark, Kangxi
Finely potted with deep, flaring sides supported by an angled base
and short foot ring, decorated on the exterior with blossoming
prunus branches and a sunset glowing at the distance, all above a
quiet stream carrying away the fallen petals, the interior plain, at base
an apocryphal six-character Chenghua mark within double circle in
underglaze-blue.
8 1/8in (20.6cm) diam; 3 3/8in (8.6cm) high
$20,000 - 30,000

清康熙 斗彩《落花流水》碗 《大明成化年製》雙圈款

Provenance
Purchased in the early 1980’s

出處：
購於 1980 年間

Scholars have identified the decoration as luo hua liu shui 落花流
水, ‘falling flowers on flowing water’, a subject often seen in the
Chenghua period poetry, paintings and textiles. While the doucai
technique and the subject matter are clearly inspired by Chenghua
artifacts, the workmanship of the present example is typical of Kangxi
period.

A bowl of this rare shape and decoration, also with plain interior
and apocryphal Chenghua-mark at base, is in the collection of the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession number 2010.429 and
described as Kangxi period, published in the auction catalogue
Christie’s New York, 16-17 September 2010, lot 1381.

Compare also the very similar bowl illustrated by Wang (ed.), Kangxi
Porcelain Ware from the Shanghai Museum Collection, Hong Kong,
1998, col. pls. 97-1 and 97-2.

See also notable examples sold at Christie’s New York, 18-19
September 2014, lot 834, and at Sotheby’s Paris, 13 June 2012,
lot 168.

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