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A doucai bowl Kangxi six-character mark and of the period
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Unusually enamelled around the exterior in translucent green, yellow, aubergine, red and orange enamel with four roundels of a single coiling four-clawed dragon clutching at a flaming pearl, the interior with a single underglaze-blue dragon roundel.
14cm (5½in) diam.
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Provenance: apparently purchased directly from W.W.Winkworth in about 1972 for £100
Edward (Ted) Wrangham, O.B.E. Collection
Compare a doucai Kangxi mark and period bowl bearing this decoration in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Porcelains in Polychrome and Contrasting Colours: The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 1999, pl. 207. Another similar bowl in Shanghai is illustrated by Wang Qingzheng, Kangxi Porcelain Wares from the Shanghai Museum Collection, Shanghai, 1998, Catalogue no.159. A pair of very similar bowls was recently sold at Sotheby's New York, 16 September 2009, lot 194.














