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Enameled Wares

7287 Property from Another Owner
A wucai-decorated jar with beauties in a garden
Shunzhi period 7288
Stoutly formed with a rolled rim, the short neck painted with flowering A doucai-decorated dish with phoenix, kui dragon
branches and rocks, the rounded shoulder with a cloud collar band and floral decoration
and the canted walls with a massive cloud bank rising between Qianlong six-character mark and of the period
beauties in a garden surrounded by a parapet, the decoration drawn Molded with a flared rim to the wide, curving well centered with a
in underglaze blue and bright pigments on the celadon-tinged glaze large roundel of the auspicious beasts and composite flower drawn
that stops above the canted edge of the unglazed base. in underglaze blue outline and then colored with bright enamels that
11 3/4in (30cm) high repeat on the exterior walls, the tall foot also encircled with a band of
$5,000 - 7,000 dots and C-scrolls and all surfaces except the foot pad covered with a
clear glaze, the reign mark written in underglaze blue seal script to the
Provenance center of the recessed base.
Bluett, London, by repute 7 1/2in (19cm) diameter
$3,000 - 4,000

For dish of the same size and decoration in the Nanjing Museum, also
Qianlong mark and of the period, see Gongting Zhencang: Zhongguo
Qingdai Guanyao Ciqi (Treasures in the Royalty: The Official Kiln
Porcelain of the Chinese Qing Dynasty), 2003, p. 284.

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