doucai

Assiette en porcelaine décorée en émaux polychromes dit doucai, CHINE, Époque Kangxi  (1662-1722). Photo courtesy Piasa à décor d'un comédien de la Comedia dell'Arte dit assiette des actionnaires avec l'inscription Schijit actien en wind-hande (Agiotage et spéculation me font chier). Le bord orné d'une frise en bleu et verts d'herbes folles. Diamètre : 21,2 cm. Estimation : 6 000 / 8 000 €Provenance : Galerie Giroux-Bruxelles, le 1er mars 1957Piasa. Lundi 9 décembre 2013. Drouot Richelieu - Salle 2 - 9, rue Drouot -... [Lire la suite]

A very fine doucai 'floral' bowl, Daoguang seal mark and of the period. Photo courtesy Bonhams. Finely enamelled and outlined in underglaze-blue on the exterior with six stylised lotus blossoms issuing dense vine scrolls and leafy tendrils, above overlapping leaf and ruyi-head lappets, the base with a six-character Imperial zhuanshu seal mark. 14.3cm diam. Estimate HK$ 500,000 - 600,000 (€48,000 - 57,000) Provenance 來源: Christie's London, 8 December 1986, lot 440 Compare a example of... [Lire la suite]

A doucai cylindrical brushpot, bitong, 18th century. Photo courtesy Bonhams Delicately outlined in blue and enamelled with green rocks issuing a twisting grisaille branch of iron-red prunus supporting a perching bird, beside clumps of iron-red and yellow chrysanthemum flowers and bamboo sprays, the reverse with two further birds in flight above three scattered rocks. 14.3cm (5 5/8in) high. Estimate £12,000 - 15,000 (€14,000 - 18,000) - Unsold Provenance: a former Governor of Hong Kong in the late 19th century, and... [Lire la suite]

A rare doucai 'five dragon' bottle vase, Yongzheng. Photo courtesy Bonhams The rounded body and tall slender neck enamelled in bright green, yellow, red and purplish grisaille with one front-facing four-clawed red dragon, three green dragons and one grisaille dragon, each writhing amidst delicate fire scrolls in pursuit of a flaming pearl. 36.8cm (14½in) high. Sold for £20,000 (€23,863) Provenance: acquired by the owner's father in the Netherlands, probably in 1950s. A European private collection ... [Lire la suite]

A doucai 'Dragon and Phoenix' bowl, Yongzheng Mark And Period. Photo Sotheby's the deep rounded sides divided into four lobes, rising from a straight foot to an everted rim, the exterior painted with four panels variously enclosing dragons in pursuit of flaming pearlS and phoenix in flight amidst scrolling clouds, the interior similarly decorated with a central medallion enclosing a dragon writhing around a flaming pearl amongst clouds, the rim encircled on both sides by a wave band with florets, the foot... [Lire la suite]

A rare doucai 'Lotus' jar and cover, Qing dynasty, Kangxi-Yongzeng period. Photo: Sotheby's. in the Chenghua style, the ovoid body decorated in underglaze-blue and green, iron-red and yellow enamels within blue outlines with five barbed quatrefoil panels enclosing lotus scrolls with flowers in pale iron-red further wreathed in green curling foliage, interspersed above and below with red lotus and yellow lingzhi, the shoulders and base with radiating borders of petals pencilled in... [Lire la suite]

A doucai 'Shou'-character dish, Seal mark and period of Qianlong. Photo: Sotheby's. with shallow rounded sides supported on a low tapered foot, painted in bright enamels on the interior with a central medallion enclosing a fruiting peach tree bearing eleven fruits, its trunk twisted and bent to form a shoucharacter above a sprig of lingzhi and garden rocks in underglaze blue, all within a double-line border repeated at the rim, the exterior with three further peach trees forming... [Lire la suite]

A fine doucai 'Floral' dish, Mark and period of Yongzheng. Photo: Sotheby's. finely potted with shallow everted sides supported on a straight foot, brightly painted in tones of iron-red, yellow and green enamels within underglaze blue outlines, the interior centred by a shou symbol wreathed in a floral garland of alternating pomegranate and suspended bouquets of florets and chrysanthemum, all divided and enclosed by interlaced strapworks within a double-line border repeated at the rim, the... [Lire la suite]

A fine doucai 'Eight-Immortal Emblems' bowl, Mark and period of Yongzheng. Photo: Sotheby's. well potted with gently rounded everted sides rising from a small tapered foot, decorated on the exterior in soft tones of underglaze blue and brilliant enamels with the emblems of the Eight Immortals (baxian), tied with billowing ribbons alternately iron-red and green, between a border of interlinked elongated 'C' motifs in underglaze blue around the rim, and a border of yellow and red ruyiheads skirting the base, linked... [Lire la suite]

A pair of fine doucai 'Lingzhi' winecups, Marks and period of Yongzheng. Photo: Sotheby's. each of shallow 'U' form supported on a circular footring, finely painted on the exterior with four medallions, each of a pair of coloured ruyi heads, enclosed and divided by florets with leafy tendrils between single fillets encircling the foot and rim, the base inscribed in underglaze blue with a six-character reign mark within double squares; 7.3 cm., 2 7/8  in. Estimation 1,200,000 - 1,800,000 HKD... [Lire la suite]