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A FINE AND RARE SMALL DOUCAI BOWL 清雍正 鬪彩折枝花果紋小盌
QING DYNASTY, YONGZHENG PERIOD 《大明成化年製》仿款
well potted with deep rounded sides resting on a short
foot, the exterior delicately painted with two fruiting sprays 來源：
alternating with two floral sprays, each rendered with pastel 香港蘇富比1991年10月29日，編號201
tones and depicted with green leaves borne on the gnarled
twigs, all between two double-line bands encircling the rim
and foot, the base inscribed with an apocryphal six-character
mark within a double circle
9 cm, 3½ in.
PROVENANCE
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 29th October 1991, lot 201.

HK$ 400,000-600,000
US$ 51,000-76,500

The present bowl is a superb example of Yongzheng
doucai wares which were strongly influenced by early Ming
porcelain designs. It follows the Chenghua prototypes
closely. For a Chenghua cup painted with comparable
leafy sprays of flowers and fruit, see a blue-and-white
example in the collection of the National Palace Museum,
Taipei, included in Illustrated Catalogue of Important Ming
Porcelains. Chenghua, Hongzhi and Zhengde Ware, Tokyo,
1977, pl. 17. Compare also two larger bowls painted with six
roundels of fruits and flowers, one in the National Palace
Museum, Taipei, included in the Museum’s exhibition
Chenghua ciqi tezhan/ Special Exhibition of Ch’eng-hua
Porcelain Ware, 1465-1487, Taipei, 2003, cat. no. 151; the
other one excavated from Jingdezhen, illustrated in Imperial
Porcelains from the Reign of Chenghua in the Ming Dynasty:
A Comparison of Porcelains from the Imperial Kiln Site at
Jingdezhen and Imperial Collection of the Palace Museum,
Beijing, 2016, vol. 2, no. 153.

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