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3 octobre 2016

A very fine doucai 'anbaxian' ogee bowl, seal mark and period of Qianlong (1736-1795)

A very fine doucai 'anbaxian' ogee bowl, seal mark and period of Qianlong (1736-1795)

A very fine doucai 'anbaxian' ogee bowl, seal mark and period of Qianlong (1736-1795)

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Lot 3626. A very fine doucai 'anbaxian' ogee bowl, seal mark and period of Qianlong (1736-1795). Estimate 1,000,000 — 1,500,000 HKD. Photo: Sotheby's.

the bowl of ogee form rising from a tapered foot, the interior with a flat central well decorated with an interlinked scroll border enclosing a swirled roundel issuing alternating yellow and blue flames, surrounded by four peaches born on the leafy scroll border, the cavetto finely decorated with the anbaxian emblems, each accentuated with billowing ribbons, the exterior brightly decorated with eight stylised floral blooms borne on undulating leafy scrolls above a border of ruyi-heads alternating with upright lappets, the base inscribed in underglaze blue with a six-character seal mark; 20.1 cm, 7 7/8  in.

ProvenanceS. Marchant & Son, London.

NotesThis bowl is an exquisite example of porcelain wares decorated in the doucai technique, notable for the varying shades of green and combination of blue enamel with underglaze blue to create a more visually rich piece. Before the Kangxi Emperor, blue on ceramics only appeared in underglaze cobalt; however during the Kangxi Emperor's reign blue enamel was imported from Europe before being produced locally from the sixth year of Yongzheng. While a common feature of famille-verte and falangcai porcelain, it is not commonly seen on doucai wares, which typically only incorporated underglaze blue.  

A bowl of this type in the Nanjing Museum, was included in the exhibition Qing Imperial Porcelain of the Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong Reigns, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 1995, cat. no. 106; another in the Tokyo National Museum, is published in the Illustrated Catalogue of Tokyo National Museum. Chinese Ceramics, vol. 2, Tokyo, 1990, pl. 592, together with two bowls of this type with Jiaqing and Daoguang marks and of the respective periods; a pair from the Umezawa Kinenkan, Tokyo, was included in the exhibition Shinsho tōji, MOA Art Museum, Atami, 1984, cat. no. 44; and a further pair from the Toguri Museum of Art, Tokyo, was sold in these rooms, 9th June 2004, lot 2. For a bowl pencilled with this design in underglaze blue only, see two sold in these rooms, one, 29th May 1978, lot 632, and the other, 21st May 1982, lot 714.

Sotheby's. Important Chinese Art, Hong Kong, 05 oct. 2016, 02:30 PM

 

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