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A PAIR OF DOUCAI ‘MEDALLION’ BOWLS
QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARKS IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD
(1736-1795)
Each bowl is fnely pencilled in underglaze blue and enamelled in yellow, iron-red and green with fve
roundels containing alternating fowering and fruiting trees divided by pomegranate sprays above a band
of overlapping leaf lappets around the base.
5√ in. (15 cm.) diam. (2)
£30,000-50,000 $38,000-63,000
€35,000-58,000
PROVENANCE
Christie’s Hong Kong, 30 November 2011, lot 3130.
The medallion design frst originated in the Kangxi period as exemplifed by a similar bowl from the
collection of the Beijing Palace Museum, illustrated in Porcelains in Polychrome and Contrasting Colours,
The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 1999, p.216, pl. 197. The
pattern continued in the subsequent reigns, with known examples from the Qianlong, Jiaqing and
Daoguang periods. A Daoguang-marked pair of bowls from the collection of Dr. Elizabeth Shing was
sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 1 June 2011, lot 4007.
清乾隆 鬥彩團花紋馬蹄式碗 六字篆書款
來源：香港佳士得2011年11月30日拍賣，拍品第3130號
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