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Doucai bowl cover with dragons
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1465
Title
Doucai bowl cover with dragons, clouds and flaming pearl Qing dynasty, late Kangxi/Yongzheng (1700-1735)
Short title
Doucai bowl cover with dragons
Record number
BATEA : 1443
Simple name
bowl cover
Classified name
ceramic; doucai; Qing; Kangxi; Yongzheng; polychrome; dragon; Sydney Smith; handling; China; 18th century; cloud; pearl; animal;
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A doucai palette bowl cover, itself shaped as a shallow footed bowl, decorated with two large five-clawed dragons (one primarily green, the other primarily yellow) arising from a wave border. Each dragon is shown chasing a flaming pearl amid stylised clouds. The palette is comparatively dark and strongly drawn.
Description material
porcelain
Description condition
good but there is a nick in the rim done before it was glazed; it was probably disgarded because of this flaw.
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of body
white
of glaze
green, yellow, rouge de fer, underglaze blue, aubergine and black
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Description length
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6cm
Description diameter
20cm
Description width
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Production date
1700 = 1735
Production period
late Kangxi/Yongzheng
Production place
China
Production site name
Jingdezhen
Production notes
The bowl would probably have had a Yongzheng or a Chenghua mark done in the style used in late Kangxi
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