Chinese Yong-Zheng 'Doucai' Dragon Dish Pair

CH'ING DYNASTY, 1723-1735 AD

4 3/4" (166 grams total, 12cm diameter.).

A pair of shallow porcelain dishes with white ground, decorated in enamels in the 'Doucai' style showing a five-claw dragon chasing a sacred pearl internally with cloud scrolls to inner rim and swirling waves and cloud scrolls to underside; six-character mark and of the period seal in underglaze blue of emperor Yong-Zheng (Yung-cheng) to bases. [2]

Provenance

Property of a London collector; acquired Hong Kong, 1970s.

Footnotes

The Chinese term doucai means "joined colours" and was technically difficult and required two firings: the design's outline is painted in under glaze blue, the piece is glazed, then fired at a high temperature. The outlines were then coloured in with red, yellow, green and aubergine over glaze enamels, and the object was fired again at a lower temperature.

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LOT 1876

Chinese Yong-Zheng 'Doucai' Dragon Dish Pair

Sold for (Inc. bp): £13,640

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