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PROPERTY FROM THE FAMILY COLLECTION OF GENERAL JOSEPH W. STILWELL
815
AN UNUSUAL DOUCAI DISH
YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE
WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)
The dish is decorated on the interior with a roundel depicting immortals
standing on iron-red clouds as they approach Penglai surrounded by
billowing clouds set amidst rolling waves, with two cranes grasping arrows
in their beaks in fight above, and the reverse is decorated with bats in fight
amidst rocks and waves beneath a band of scrolling clouds, all within double
blue line borders.
8¡ in. (21.3 cm.) diam.
$10,000-15,000

PROVENANCE
The Collection of General Joseph W. Stilwell (1883-1946), acquired in the early
twentieth century, and thence by descent within the family.
A Yongzheng-marked doucai dish of this unusual pattern but slightly smaller
in size (20.6 cm.) is illustrated in Porcelains from the Tianjin Municipal
Museum, Hong Kong, 1993, pls. 159 and 160. For examples sold at auction,
see the pair sold at Christie’s New York, 23 March 2012, lot 2034, and
the single example from the collection of Dr. James D. Thornton, sold at (reverse)
Christie’s Hong Kong, 29 November 2017, lot 2810.
清雍正 鬥彩海屋添籌圖盤 雙圈六字楷書款

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