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Chinese Art: The Szekeres Collection
March 13-29, 2019
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A BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN ‘EMBLEMS’ BOWL
Guangxu mark and of the period (1875 – 1908)
with shallow rounded sides rising from a wide flat medallion, decorated on the interior with the Eight Daoist Emblems tied with ribbons and paired with floral sprays encircling the central medallion decorated with a pinwheel florette surrounded by a linked collar of stylized peaches and demiflorettes, the underside with eight exotic flower heads amidst fanciful scrolling foliage, all drawn in underglaze-blue line and wash above a border of linked ruyi heads, the slightly recessed base inscribed with the six character reign mark of Guangxu.
Diameter 8 1⁄4 inches (20.9 cm)
Porcelain bowls of this distinctive form decorated with the same pattern were made in both blue and white and enamelled versions from the Qianlong period through the end of the Qing dynasty.
Compare four doucai enamelled bowls of this form with Qianlong, Jiaqing and Daoguang marks from the Tokyo National Museum, illustrated in the catalogue of the special exhibition organized by the Osaka Municipal Museum of Art, Shinchō kōgei no bi: shūrei na Shinchō tōji o chūshin ni (The Beauty of Qing Art: Elegant Qing Dynasty Ceramics), Osaka, 1992, p. 59, no. 176. Another doucai enamelled bowl of this form with Xuantong mark is illustrated by Avitabile, Vom Schatz der Drachen: Chinesisches Porzellan des 19. Und 20. Jahrhunderts aus der Sammlung Weishaupt (From the Dragon’s Treasure: Chinese Porcelain from the 19th and 20th Centuries in the Weishaupt Collection), London, 1987, pp. 102-103, no. 147.
光緒 青花暗八仙紋笠式碗 徑 20.9 厘米
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18.
A BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN ‘EMBLEMS’ BOWL
Guangxu mark and of the period (1875 – 1908)
Diameter 8 1⁄4 inches (20.9 cm)