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A PAIR OF DOUCAI ‘FIGURAL’ DISHES
KANGXI MARKS AND PERIOD
each with shallow rounded sides rising from a tapered foot,
Þ nely enameled to the interior with a lady sitting in a pavilion
overseeing a child grasping a branch of bamboo with a
phoenix perching atop, beside a carp leaping above waves,
the exterior with three further carp leaping above crashing
waves, the base with a six-character mark in underglaze blue
within a double circle (2)
Diameter 6¼ in., 15.8 cm
Compare a doucai dish of this type sold at Christie’s Hong
Kong, 26th September 1989, lot 728.
$ 6,000-8,000
㶭⹟䅁ġġġ櫍⼑Ṣ䈑㓭ḳ⚾䚌ᶨ⮵
˪⣏㶭⹟䅁⸜墥˫㫦

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