Lot 231 , A good Chinese doucai duck and lotus bowl, Daoguang seal mark and of the period (1821-50), D. 16.5cm

A good Chinese doucai 'duck and lotus' bowl, Daoguang seal mark and of the period (1821-50), the exterior finely painted with a continuous scene of mandarin ducks swimming amidst large lotus blooms, under an underglaze blue band of sinuous five-clawed dragons chasing 'flaming pearls', painted in the interior with a central medallion of a pair of ducks in a lotus pond, with a band of lança characters at the rim, the base inscribed in underglaze blue with a seal mark, D. 16.5cm
Estimate £8,000-12,000

Provenance - from a private collection, in the family before 1980.
cf. a pair of similar bowls sold by Sotheby's, London, Important Chinese Art, 10 May 2017, Lot 223.

The bowl has some occasional minor scratches to the glaze and enamel and there is some slight brown water residue to the interior of the bowl otherwise in good condition with no restoration chips or cracks and some slight wear to the unglazed foot consistent with age.


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Sold for £25,000