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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE EUROPEAN COLLECTION

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A PAIR OF DOUCAI ‘FLORAL BOUQUET’ BOWLS
YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARKS IN UNDERGLAZE-BLUE WITHIN DOUBLE CIRCLES
AND OF THE PERIOD(1723-1735)

清雍正 鬥彩花卉紋碗一對 雙圈六字楷書款

Each bowl is delicately painted and enamelled in soft tones around the exterior with six bouquets of
daisies in shades of blue, yellow and iron-red, divided by foliate arabesques emerging from the base and
from below a blue and yellow ruyi band around the rim. The interior medallion is decorated with a central
bouquet encircled by forettes and further arabesques, all within double-line borders.

6 in. (15.3 cm.) diam. (2)

£30,000-50,000 $46,000-76,000
€41,000-68,000

PROVENANCE: (marks)

From a private European collection, predominantly assembled in the 1970s and 1980s. 317

A number of similarly decorated bowls have been sold at auction, including a pair from the Edward T.
Chow collection, sold in Christies Hong Kong, 25 November 1980, lot 128. Compare also this doucai
decoration on larger vessels from the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Wucai, Doucai: Porcelains in
Polychrome and Contrasting Colours, The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, 1999,
pl. 224, a garlic-head globular vase, and pl. 225, a meiping.

Also a very similar pair of bowls with this design and from the same period were sold in Christies Hong
Kong, 28 May 2014, lot 3460.

來源:歐洲私人珍藏； 大部分購自1970及1980年代