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           A DOUCAI CONICAL ‘DRAGON’        London, 1925, pl. LV, " g. 1; and another in the
           BOWL                             collection of the Asian Art Museum of San
                                            Francisco is illustrated in Chinese Ceramics in
           YONGZHENG MARK AND PERIOD
                                            the Avery Brundage Collection, San Francisco,
           " nely potted, with wide ! ared sides rising from   1967, pl. LXXIII (C). See also a bowl of this type
           a short straight foot, brilliantly enameled to the   from the Aykroyd collection, illustrated in Soame
           exterior with two " ve-clawed dragons, one in   Jenyns, Later Chinese Porcelain, London, 1951,
           yellow and the other in green, each in pursuit   pl. XCIV, " g. 3, and sold in our Hong Kong rooms,
           of a ‘! aming pearl’ and leaping from a band of   17th May 1966, lot 230; and a pair sold in these
           turbulent crested waves amidst multi-colored   rooms, 8th December 1992, lot 269.
           cloud and ! ame scrolls, the base with a six-  This bowl belongs to a group of porcelain wares
           character mark in underglaze blue  discussed by Peter Y.K. Lam in ‘Lang Tinji (1663-
           Diameter 7⅝ in., 19.2 cm         1715) and the Porcelain of the Late Kangxi Period’,
                                            Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society, vol.
           PROVENANCE
                                            68, 2002-2003, p. 44, which he attributes to the
           Massachusetts Private Collection.  early years of the Yongzheng reign on account of
           Bowls of this powerful design are held in   their unusual marks.
           important museums and private collections
                                            $ 40,000-60,000
           worldwide; for example, one in the Palace
           Museum, Beijing, is illustrated in Qing Porcelain   ૶འ͍   ৸੹ऎ˥ථᎲႼम७ୈό䋘
           from the Palace Museum Collection. Kangxi,
                                            ɽ૶འ͍ϋႡ‘ಛ
           Yongzheng, Qianlong, Hong Kong, 1989, pl. 30;
           a pair in the Nanjing Museum, Nanjing, was   Ը๕
           included in the exhibition Qing Imperial Porcelain   ௦޲ӷɛϗᔛ
           of the Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong Reigns,
           The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong
           Kong, 1995, cat. no. 52; a single bowl in the
           British Museum, London, is published in R.L.
           Hobson, The Later Ceramic Wares of China,















































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