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525 A SMALL DOUCAI ‘SHOU’ DISH
44 SOTHEBY’S QIANLONG SEAL MARK AND PERIOD

painted with a central medallion enclosing a fruiting peach
tree, its trunk twisted to form a shou character amid a setting
of lingzhi, grasses, and decorative rocks, the dish’s exterior
with three further shou character peach trees interspersed
by sprigs of lingzhi in underglaze blue, the base with a six-
character seal mark in underglaze blue
Width 5⅝ in., 14.3 cm
PROVENANCE
Collection of Mrs. Yau Tong Hak (according to label).
A Qianlong doucai dish of this pattern was included in the
exhibition Chi’ng Porcelain from the Wah Kwong Collection, The
Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 1973, cat. no.
92. Dishes of this type and period sold in our London rooms,
1st-2nd April 1974, lot 324; in our Hong Kong rooms, 13th May
1976, lot 337, and 24th May 1978, lot 243; and at Christie’s
Hong Kong, 28th April 1997, lot 747.

$ 20,000-30,000

Yau Tong Hak

525

A PAIR OF DOUCAI ‘WANG XIZHI’ CUPS
QING DYNASTY, KANGXI PERIOD

each delicately potted with an everted rim and countersunk
base, enameled to the exterior with a continuous scene
depicting Wang Xizhi seated below a willow tree overhanging
a river, watching ve geese in the water below, the base with
an apocryphal six-character Chenghua mark (2)
Diameter 2⅝ in., 6.7 cm
Compare a similar doucai cup of this subject matter
previously sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 14th November
1989, lot 221, and more recently again in these rooms, 11th
September 2012, lot 42.

$ 15,000-20,000