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TWO LARGE DOUCAI DISHES
19TH CENTURY
Each dish is brightly enameled with a central medallion composed of two A doucai dish of the same design, dated to the Yongzheng period, is in
confronting stylized phoenixes encircled by four large lotus blossoms borne on the collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing, and illustrated in Complete
sinuous, curling stems, the well decorated with the Eight Buddhist Emblems Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum - 38 - Porcelain in Polychrome
(bajixiang) amidst swirling clouds below a band of crashing waves scattered and Contrasting Colors, Hong Kong, 1999, p. 252, pl. 231. Another similar dish
with further auspicious emblems at the rim, the exterior painted with lotus with a Qianlong mark, is illustrated in Qing Imperial Porcelain of the Kangxi,
scroll with an apocryphal Qianlong seal mark on the base. Yongzheng and Qianlong Reigns, Nanjing and The Art Gallery, The Chinese
University of Hong Kong, 1995, no. 104. Compare, also, similar dishes sold at
20 in. (50.8 cm.) diam. (2)
Christie’s London, 8 December 1986, lot 436 and Christie’s, Hong Kong,
$30,000-50,000 29 April 2001, lot 599.
清十九世紀 鬥彩盤兩件
PROVENANCE
Nagatani, Chicago, 25 March 1965.
EXHIBITED
On loan: Minneapolis, Minnesota, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts,
May 1981-July 1992.
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