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A RARE DOUCAI CONICAL ‘SWALLOWS’ BOWL
YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN A DOUBLE-CIRCLE AND OF
THE PERIOD (1723-1735)
The exterior of the bowl is decorated with swallows and prunus fowers, with the mouth
and foot rims encircled by double-line borders.
7æ in. (19.6 cm.) diam.
£60,000-80,000 $78,000-100,000
€69,000-92,000
PROVENANCE
Sotheby’s New York, 28 September 1979, lot 321.
From a private European collection amassed in the 1970s.
A very similar example with gilt rims from the Palace Museum collection in Beijing
is illustrated in Porcelains in Polychrome and Contrasting Colours, The Complete
Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 1999, no. 223. Another
comparable bowl in the collection of the British Museum is illustrated by R.L. Hobson,
The Later Ceramic Wares of China, London, 1925, pl. LV, fg. 1.
清雍正 鬥彩喜上梅梢斗笠碗 雙圈三行六字楷書款
來源: 歐洲私人珍藏, 於1979年9月28日紐約蘇富比拍賣, 拍品第321號
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