A very fine and rare doucai porcelain bowl, China, underglaze blue six-character mark Yongzheng and of the period. Photo Nagel

Well painted on the exterior in delicate enamels with a leafy meander bearing six exotiv blooms above ruyi and petal borders, with a single bloom in a medaillon in the interior. Good condition. D. 12,2 cm. Estimate 40 000/60 000 €

Provenance: Christie’s New York, 16 September 1999, lot 344

Cf. a doucai bowl in the Jingdezhen Ceramic Museum of the same size and pattern and with a Yongzheng reign mark is illustrated in Keitokuchin Jiki, p. 115, bottom right, and another was included in the O.C.S. Exhibition The Arts of the Ch’ing Dynasty, London, 1964, Catalogue no. 195, together with a blue and white example, no. 115. A pair of larger doucai bowls was included in the Min Chiu Society Exhibition An Anthology of Chinese Ceramics, Hong Kong, 1980, Catalogue no. 147; a doucai bouwl of the same pattern which is sent by Palast Museum Beijing into Chong Qing Museum, illustrated in Chongqing Zhongguo Sanxia Bowuguan Cang Wenwu
Xuancui, Ciqi, no. 96

Nagel. "Asian Art". 2012/11/02 http://www.auction.de/