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A FINE PAIR OF WUCAI 'DRAGON AND PHOENIX' BOWLS
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A FINE PAIR OF WUCAI 'DRAGON AND PHOENIX' BOWLS
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(Set Currency)
    HK$1,500,000 - HK$2,000,000
  • ($194,135 - $258,847)

Sale Information

Sale 2811
The Imperial Sale Important Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art
31 May 2010
Hong Kong Buy Catalog





Lot Description

A FINE PAIR OF WUCAI 'DRAGON AND PHOENIX' BOWLS
KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARKS WITHIN DOUBLE-CIRCLES AND OF THE PERIOD (1662-1722)

Each with deeply rounded sides rising to a slightly flaring rim, painted to the exterior with two dragons amidst flower sprays chasing 'flaming pearls' divided by two descending phoenix, below a narrow band of the eight Buddhist Emblems interspersed with ruyi-heads at the rim, the interior with a medallion enclosing a writhing dragon chasing a 'flaming pearl' amidst fire-scrolls
5 1/8 in. (13 cm.) diam. (2)


清康熙 五彩龍鳳趕珠紋盌一對 雙圈雙行六字楷書款

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Provenance

Previously sold at:
Christie's Hong Kong, 20 March 1990, lot 623
Sotheby's Hong Kong, 8 April 2007, lot 772

Lot Notes

Compare to the pair of similar bowls included in the Hong Kong O.C.S. Exhibition of Ch'ing Polychrome Porcelain, 1979, no. 32; and to another fine bowl sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 30 May 2006, lot 1427.

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