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A RARE PAIR OF DOUCAI DISHES
YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARKS IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE
WITHIN DOUBLE CIRCLES AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)
Each with widely fared, shallow, rounded sides and is decorated on the exterior with two vignettes of
bamboo emerging from rocks dotted with iron-red lingzhi, the leafy branches of the bamboo gracefully
extending around the sides below the rim.
8 in. (20.4 cm.) diam.
$40,000-60,000

The design appearing on the backs of this elegant pair of dishes appears to have its origin in doucai
dishes of the preceding Kangxi period (1662-1722). See, for example, the Kangxi-marked doucai dish
with similar decoration on the back, but with decoration on the interior of a central medallion of a peach
and crane superimposed over a shou character below shou medallions and peaches in the cavetto,
formerly in the Grandidier Collection and now in the collection of the Musée Guimet, illustrated in
Oriental Ceramics, The Word’s Great Collections, vol. 7, Tokyo, 1981, col. Pl. 86. Another Kangxi-marked
dish of this type, with decoration on the interior, was sold at Christie’s New York, 16 September 2011,
lot 1540.
清雍正 鬥彩竹石靈芝紋盤一對 雙圈三行六字楷書款

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