Lot 4
Lot 4
PROPERTY FROM AN ASIAN PRIVATE COLLECTION
A DOUCAI ‘LOTUS BOUQUET ’DISH AND A DOUCAI ‘LOTUS’ DISH

QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY

Price Realised HKD 68,750
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HKD 50,000 - HKD 60,000
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A DOUCAI ‘LOTUS BOUQUET ’DISH AND A DOUCAI ‘LOTUS’ DISH

QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY

Price Realised HKD 68,750
Price Realised HKD 68,750
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The centre of the interior of one dish is painted with a bouquet of lotus flowers, leaves, a seed-pod, and aquatic plants tied with a bowed ribbon. Three detached clusters of lotus-flowers are depicted in the cavetto and on the exterior. The other dish is decorated with a lotus flower flanked by other floral sprays in the centre. The reverse is encircled by a composite scrolling band of four lotus blossoms and their buds. Both dishes are inscribed with an apocryphal Chenghua mark on the base.
8 in. and 7½ in. (20.5 cm. and 19 cm.) diam., boxes


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Acquired in Taipei in the 1980s
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