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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE HUDSON VALLEY COLLECTION
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A DOUCAI ‘FLORAL’ CONICAL BOWL A number of similarly decorated doucai conical bowls of identical size and
YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE dated to the Yongzheng period, are in the collection of important museums
WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735) and private collections. One example is illustrated in The Complete Collection
of Treasures of the Palace Museum - 38 - Porcelain in Polychrome and
The fnely potted bowl is delicately enameled on the exterior of the widely
Contrasting Colors, Hong Kong, 1999, p. 250, no. 229. Another example
fared sides in soft pastel tones of pink, aubergine, yellow, red and green
from the Chang Foundation is included in Selected Chinese Ceramics from
outlined in underglaze-blue with four foral roundels depicting the fowers
Han to Qing Dynasties, Chang Foundation, Taipei, 1990, p. 320, no. 141. A
of the four seasons, prunus, peony, lotus and chrysanthemum, separated
further example in the Gulbenkian Museum of Oriental Art and Archaeology,
by formalized lotus spandrels, and in the the center of the interior with a
University of Durham, is illustrated by I. L. Legeza in A Descriptive and
medallion containing two butterfies in fight above a fower sprig within a blue
Illustrated Catalogue of the Malcolm MacDonald Collection of Chinese
double-line border.
Ceramics, London, 1972, pl. CXXXIX, no. 378. Another example was included
8æ in. (22.2 cm.) diam. in the exhibition Chinese porcelain from the 15th to the 18th century, Eskenazi
Ltd., London, 2006, no.12.
$20,000-30,000
Other examples, sold at auction, include one sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 29
May 2013, lot 2113; one sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 1 June 2011, lot 4008;
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and the example previously in the Paul and Helen Bernat Collection, sold at
Sotheby Parke Bernet New York, 19 November 1982, lot 302.
Christie’s Hong Kong, 29 April 2001, lot 552.
The present bowl is distinguished by the delicate combination of the doucai 清雍正 鬥彩開光四季花卉紋笠式盌 雙圈六字楷書款
technique and famille rose palette, creating a pleasant and harmonious
contrast between the underglaze-blue outline and soft pastel colors. This
combination was an innovation during the Yongzheng period, and the current
bowl is a representative example rendered in this novel technique.

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