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A DOUCAI 'FLORAL MEDALLION' BOWL A LARGE DOUCAI FISH BOWL
YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN 18TH-EARLY 19TH CENTURY
UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE The fish bowl is decorated on the exterior in
CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735) underglaze blue and bright enamels with stylized
The exterior is decorated with five medallions lotus medallions, festooned with meandering
of stylized fruit trees interspersed with pairs of floral scroll, all between decorative borders.
pomegranate motifs, all above a tri-color wave 22 in. (55.9 cm.) diam., gilt-softwood stand
border. The interior is decorated with leafy, frond-
like forms in green enamel.
$20,000-30,000
7¬ in. (19.3 cm.) diam., Japanese wood box
A Qianlong-period doucai jardinière with similar
$12,000-18,000 decoration is illustrated in Sekai Toji Zenshu,
vol. 15, Japan, 1983, pls. 94 and 95. For other
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PROVENANCE:
similar examples, see one in the Shanghai
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 17-18 May 1988, lot 208.
Museum illustrated in Selected Ceramics from
the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. J.M. Hu, Shanghai,
北美珍藏 1989, pl. 68, an example with a Qianlong mark,
sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 28 November 2006,
清雍正 鬥彩團花果紋盌 雙圈六字楷書款
lot 1546, and one sold in The Three Emperors:
來源: Imperial Porclain of the Kangxi, Yongzheng and
香港蘇富比, 1988年5月17-18日, 拍品編號208 Qianlong reigns from the Yidetang Collection;
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 12 October 2021, lot 17.

清十八/十九世紀初 鬥彩團花紋魚缸
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