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• Auction House:
  Sotheby's Australia
• Sale Name:
  Fine Asian, Australian & European Arts & Design
• Sale Date:
  15 Apr 2014 ~ 6pm
• Lot #:
  209
• Lot Description:
  A Doucai 'Mandarin Duck And Lotus' Bowl Seal Mark And Period of Jiaqing
  with steeply rounded sides rising from a straight foot to the flared rim, decorated on the exterior in underglaze blue, iron-red and green enamel, with two pairs of mandarin ducks divided by clumps of lotus and sedge, above a band of lappets and between double line borders, the interior with a similar central medallion, the base inscribed in underglaze blue with a six-character seal mark; together with an edition of Gunhild Avitabile From the Dragon's Treasure, and Sotheby's Amsterdam catalogue Chinese and Japanese Ceramics and Works of Art, 21 May 1996 (3)
  13.8 cm diameter
• Provenance:
  Weishaupt Collection; Sotheby's, Amsterdam, 21 May 1996, lot 277.
• References:
  Gunhild Avitabile, From the Dragon's Treasure, no. 34 (illustrated)
• Notes:
  For the Ming origin of this design compare a doucai bowl, excavated from the Zhengtong stratum of the imperial kiln site at Jingdezhen, included in the exhibition Ceramic Finds from Jingdezhen kilns, the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 1992, cat. no. 231; and a Chenghua marked bowl in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Yeh Pei-Lang, Gems of the Doucai, Taipei, 1993, pl.43
• Estimate:
  A$6,000 - 8,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Oriental

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