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A FINE AND RARE DOUCAI ‘IMMORTALS’ DISH Only a small number of doucai dishes of this rare design
QING DYNASTY, KANGXI / YONGZHENG are known, including one in the Palace Museum, Beijing,
PERIOD illustrated in Porcelains in Polychrome and Contrasting
Colours. The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace
delicately painted with a central medallion depicting Museum, Hong Kong, 1999, pl. 219; and a pair included in
Shoulao seated atop a rock reading a scroll, a pine tree the exhibition Ch’ing Polychrome Porcelain, Hong Kong
stretching overhead and an attendant preparing incense in Oriental Ceramics Society, Hong Kong, 1977, cat. no. 63.
the foreground, the cavetto encircled by the ‘Eight Buddhist Two further pairs are known, the first from the collection of
Emblems’ entwined in a foliate scroll, the exterior with a Alfred E. Hippisley (1848-1939), sold at Anderson Galleries,
continuous frieze depicting the ‘Eight Daoist Immortals’ in a New York, 30th-31st January 1925, lot 190 and today in
riverscape, the base centered with an iron-red roundel of a the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (accession no.
crane bearing a peach bough in its beak 25.35.4), illustrated in Oriental Ceramics. The World’s Great
Diameter 6 in., 15.3 cm Collections, vol. 11, Tokyo, 1982, pl. 143; the second was
formerly in the Paul and Helen Bernat Collection, sold twice
PROVENANCE in our Hong Kong rooms, first on 15th November 1988,
Collection of Commander F. Warrington-Strong. lot 12 and again on 13th November 1990, lot 330. A single
Sotheby’s London, 23rd May 1972, lot 173. dish, formerly in the collection of Dr. Nat Yuen, is now in the
Sotheby’s London, 8th-9th July 1974, lot 434. collection of the University of Queensland (accession no.
Bluett & Sons Ltd., London, 11th August 1975. 2005.20); another from the collection of Sir Harry Garner
Collection of Frederick Knight. was included in the exhibition Arts of the Ch’ing Dynasty, The
Bluett & Sons Ltd., London, 13th October 1982. Oriental Ceramics Society, London, 1964, cat. no 197, and
Collection of Chia-Shi Lin (1930-2020), and thence by subsequently sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 28th November
descent. 2005, lot 1335.
EXHIBITED $ 60,000-80,000
Museum of East Asian Art, Cologne, 1978-81 (on loan).
清康熙 / 雍正 鬥彩壽老觀卷圖盤
來源
F. Warrington-Strong 指揮官收藏
倫敦蘇富比1972年5月23日，編號173
倫敦蘇富比1974年7月8至9日，編號434
Bluett & Sons Ltd.，倫敦，1975年8月11日
Frederick Knight 收藏
Bluett & Sons Ltd.，倫敦，1982年10月13日
林教授 (1930-2020) 緣木得魚齋珍藏，此後家族傳承

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東亞藝術博物館，科隆，1978至1981年（借展）

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