Lot 61 , A large Chinese doucai dish, Kangxi/Yongzheng period, early 18th century

A large Chinese doucai dish, Kangxi/Yongzheng period, early 18th century, painted to the interior in doucai enamels and gilding with bamboo and a stem of composite flowers, within double line borders below four shaped reserves enclosing further floral sprays reserved on a diaper ground, the reverse with two floral sprays painted in underglaze blue, diameter 38.7cm

Cf. a similar large doucai dish, dated to the Kangxi/Yongzheng period (1662-1735), sold by Christie's 2010, Exhibited: Beauty of Qing Period, Osaka Municipal Museum of Art, 1992, no. 103.
£1,000-1,500

Condition:
Wear to the gilding on the top left-hand flower, typical minor glaze imperfections and wear to the enamels in the well and scratches to the glaze. Grubby and would benefit from a clean, minute glaze flakes to the edge where the later metal hanger has rubbed, otherwise in good condition with no chips, cracks or restoration detected.

Sold for £1,000