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THE PROPERTY OF A LADY
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A RARE PAIR OF DOUCAI ‘DRAGON AND PHOENIX’ BOWLS The present pair of bowls is very rare in its combination of design
Kangxi six-character marks and of the period and size. However, see one example illustrated by Wang Qingzheng,
Vividly enamelled with two blue five-clawed dragons each in pursuit of ed., Kangxi Porcelain Ware from the Shanghai Museum Collection,
a flaming pearl and alternating with two green, iron-red and aubergine Shanghai, 1998, pl.160. However for a pair of related dishes with
phoenix all amid wispy cloud scrolls, above a floral scroll around the dragons on a yellow-ground, see Yang Boda, The Tsui Museum
foot, wood stands. of Art: Chinese Ceramics IV: Qing Dynasty, Hong Kong, 1995,
The largest 15.4cm (6in) diam. (4). no.120, and for a related smaller blue-wash-ground example,
£30,000 - 50,000 decorated with dragons only, see Chinese Porcelain: The S.C. Ko
CNY270,000 - 450,000 Tianminlou Collection, Part I, Hong Kong, 1987, pl.91. See also a
similarly decorated dish, Kangxi mark and period, illustrated in The
清康熙 鬥彩龍鳳呈祥盌 一對 Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Porcelains in
青花「大清康熙年製」楷書款 Polychrome and Contrasting Colours, Hong Kong, 1999, pl.210.

Provenance: a European private collection, and thence by descent

來源： 歐洲私人收藏，並由後人保存迄今

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