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A FINE AND RARE DOUCAI Doucai dishes of this design are unusual although a closely
‘IMMORTALS’ DISH related example in the Tianjin Museum, Tianjin, is illustrated in
YONGZHENG MARK AND PERIOD Tianjin shi yizhu bowuguan cang ci [Porcelains from the Tianjin
Municipal Museum], Hong Kong, 1993, pls 159 and 160; another
the shallow rounded sides rising from a short tapered foot to from the Gulland bequest in the Victoria and Albert Museum,
an everted rim, the interior painted with a roundel depicting London, is published in W.B. Honey, Chinese Porcelain, London,
immortals descending on iron-red clouds to a pavilion resting 1927, pl. 86a; a third is included in Sekai tōji zenshū/ Ceramic
on rolling waves and surrounded by billowing clouds and two Art of the World, vol. 15, Tokyo, 1983, pl. 191; and a fourth dish
in the Städtisches Völkermuseum, Frankurt, is illustrated in R.
ying cranes, the reverse painted with numerous bats ying Schmidt, Chinesisches Keramik, Frankfurt am Main, 1923, pl.
amongst waves and rockwork, the base with a six-character 22e. Another pair of dishes of this design was sold in our New
mark in underglaze blue within a double circle York rooms, 23rd September 1997, lot 359.
21.2cm, 8⅚ in.
PROVENANCE
Christie’s New York, 23rd March 2012, lot 2014 (one of a pair).
£ 20,000-30,000
HK$ 193,000-290,000 US$ 24,900-37,300
2012 3 23 2014
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