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A PAIR OF RARE DOUCAI DISHES This charming pair of dishes closely follow in both design and
YONGZHENG MARKS AND PERIOD choice of palette the celebrated doucai wares of the Chenghua
reign, such as a dish excavated from the waste heaps of the
each with shallow rounded sides rising from a short tapered imperial kilns at Jingdezhen in Jiangxi province, included in
foot, the interior painted in underglaze blue and bright enamels the exhibition A Legacy of Chenghua, The Tsui Museum of Art,
with a central circular medallion with a multi-coloured ribbon Hong Kong, 1993, cat. no. C116.
spiral bordered with yellow petals, the exterior with two
lotus sprays alternating with three interlinking lozenges with A closely related example was sold in these rooms, 3rd April
entwined foliate scrolls, the base with six-character mark in 1979, lot 169; another was sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 30th
underglaze blue May 2006, lot 1435; and a pair was sold in our New York
(2) rooms, 14th September 2011, lot 342. See also a reconstructed
16.7 cm, 6½ in. dish of this type, with Yongzheng mark and of the period, in the
Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Gugong bowuguan cang.
PROVENANCE Gu taoci ciliao xuancui [Selection of ancient ceramic materials
from the Palace Museum], vol. II, Beijing, 2005, pl. 147.
Sotheby’s London, 29th February 1972, lot 250 (£320).

಴£ 40,000-60,000
HK$ 386,000-580,000 US$ 49,700-74,500

1972 2 29 250 320

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