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A Chinese Doucai-enamelled 'Duck and lotus' bowl, Qing Dynasty…
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Melbourne
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22-Mar-2015
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A Chinese Doucai-enamelled 'Duck and lotus' bowl, Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), underglaze blue Jiaqing Sealmark and of the period (1796-1820). Lared sides decorated with mandarin ducks swimming in a lotus pond, each duck separated by lotus and millet above a band of petal lappets surrounding the base, and double blue lines to the exterior and interior of the rim; the interior decorated with a pair of ducks and lotus in a similar roundel between double lines, 6.5 cm high, 13.8 cm diameter Published: Gunhild Avitabile from the dragon's treasure - Chinese porcelain from the 19th & 20th centuries in the Weishaupt collection (London: bamboo Publishing Ltd 1987) p.38 fig.34. Provenance: Sotheby's Australia, fine Asian Australian and European arts and design 15 April 2014, Lot 209; Sotheby's Amsterdam 21 May 1996, Lot 277; Ex Weishaupt collection See: for the Ming origin of this design compare a doucai bowl, excavated from the Zhengtong stratum of the Imperial kiln site at Jingdezhen, included in the exhibition ceramic Finds from Jingdezhen kilns, the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 1992, cat. No. 231; and a Chenghua marked bowl in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Yeh Pei-Lang, gems of the Doucai, Taipei, 1993, pl.43; for a very similar example please refer to: Christie's New York 'Fine Chinese Ceramics and works of Art' 18-19 September 2014, Lot 841; and also Sotheby's 'Fine Chinese Ceramics and works of Art' Hong Kong 8 October 2013, Lot 3023 for an example from the Qianlong period. Catalogue note: Professor H. A. Van Oort, from the Hague, an expert in Chinese ceramics advised Mr. Weishaupt with his collection.
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Oriental: Ceramics - Chinese