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A PAIR OF DOUCAI ‘MEDALLION’ BOWLS
QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARKS AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

清乾隆 鬥彩團花紋馬蹄碗一對 六字篆書款

Each bowl is fnely pencilled in underglaze blue and enamelled in yellow, iron-red and green with fve
roundels containing either fowering or fruiting trees divided by pomegranate sprays above a band of
overlapping leaf lappets around the base.

5√ in. (15 cm.) diam. (2)

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

PROVENANCE: (marks)

Christie’s Hong Kong, 30 November 2011, lot 3130.

This medallion design frst originated in the Kangxi period as exemplifed by a similar bowl from the
collection of the Beijing Palace Museum, illustrated in Procelains in Polychrome and Contrasting Colours,
The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 1999, p.216, pl. 197. The
pattern continued in the subsequent reigns, with known examples from the Qianlong, Jiaqing and
Daoguang periods. A Daoguang-marked pair of bowls from the collection of Dr. Elizabeth Shing was
sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 1 June 2011, lot 4007.

來源: 2011年11月30日於香港佳士得拍賣， 拍品第3130號

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