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A VERY RARE LARGE DOUCAI OGEE-FORM BOWL
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A VERY RARE LARGE DOUCAI OGEE-FORM BOWL
Estimate
(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 VERY RARE LARGE DOUCAI OGEE-FORM BOWL
KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN DOUBLE-CIRCLES AND OF THE PERIOD (1662-1722)

The shallow bowl enamelled in brilliant tones and enhanced in gilt with a sunken central medallion of a flowerhead encircled by interlocking ruyi-heads, the wide flaring cavetto with unusual sprays of stylised floral motifs, the reverse with a lotus flower meander, each full bloom supporting one of the eight Buddhist Emblems, above a lappet band around the foot
10 3/8 in. (26.3 cm.) diam., Japanese wood box


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盤敞口，折腰，圈足。通體繪鬥彩描金紋飾。盤心以繪六個環套的如意雲頭組成團花，內壁繪變形雙犄牡丹紋；器外壁飾纏枝蓮花托八吉祥，近足處環繪蓮瓣紋。圈足內青花雙圈內書「大清康熙年製」六字楷書款。

此盤器形碩大周整，胎質細膩，釉色瑩潤，紋飾古樸典雅。

此器原為一對，為日本出光美術館之舊藏，並著錄在1987年出版《出光美術館藏品圖錄‧中國陶磁》圖版943號。2001年10月30日於香港佳士得拍賣，拍品794號，當時為一對。

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Provenance

Previously sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 30 October 2001, lot 794, originally sold as a pair

Lot Notes

The pair to the present bowl is illustrated in Chinese Ceramics in the Idemitsu Collection, Tokyo, 1987, no. 943.

Two other ogee bowls of this form and design are known, one bearing a Kangxi mark was included in the exhibition Ch'ing Porcelain from the Wah Kwong Collection, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1973, and illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 77; and the other with an apocryphal Chenghua mark, dated early 18th century, was sold in at Christie's Hong Kong, 31 October 1995, lot 500.

The designs of the central medallion and of the unusual floral sprays on the cavetto, are evidently Qing dynasty adaptations on a Chenghua prototype. Compare the present lot with a small doucai Chenghua-marked saucer from the Percival David Foundation, London, illustrated by R. Scott and S. Pierson, Flawless Porcelains: Imperial Ceramics from the Reign of the Chenghua Emperor, Singapore, 1995, pl. 25. The Ming prototype has a central medallion with interlinked ruyi-heads, with the exterior enhanced by lingzhi sprays. Although the present Kangxi bowl is much more complex and elaborate in style and composition, the inspiration is evident.

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