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1214 PROVENANCE
A DOUCAI ANBAXIAN OGEE DISH
100 Selected Chinese & Korean Ceramics from the Toguri Collection;
QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE Sotheby’s London, 9 June 2004, lot 2 (one of a pair).
AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
LITERATURE
The sunken center is decorated with a fower head surrounded by a band of
conjoined alternating peaches and blue palmettes, below the Eight Daoist Chinese Ceramics in the Toguri Collection, Tokyo, 1988, pl. 160 (one of a pair)
Emblems, anbaxian, tied with ribbons and embellished with fower sprays that
decorate the rounded, fared sides, and the exterior is decorated with exotic Qianlong-marked dishes of this pattern are in the Tokyo National Museum,
fower scroll above a ruyi border. illustrated in the Catalogue of Tokyo National Museum: Chinese Ceramics,
vol. 2, Tokyo, 1990, pl. 593; and in the Umezawa Kinenkan Museum, Tokyo,
7√ in. (20.1 cm.) diam., Japanese wood box illustrated in Toji Taikei, vol. 46, Tokyo, 1973, pl. 28. One was included in
the exhibition, Ch’ing Polychrome Porcelain, The Oriental Ceramic Society
$30,000-50,000 of Hong Kong, 1977, no. 83; and another in the exhibition, Qing Imperial
Porcelain, Nanjing Museum and the Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1995,
no. 106. See, also, the pair of bowls sold at Christie’s New York, 19 March
2009, lot 559.

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