Description
| Condition: Excellent. Typical minor rim chips, only on the back of the dish. A 1mm chip on the outer rim. Dia: 39 cm. Painted on the interior in doucai enamels and gilding with a bird perched in a tree gazing at a butterfly beside a rocky outcrop from which springs 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, iron red and green glaze. See Christie's, New York, Sale 2297, 26/03/2010, Lot 1387, for a similar dish (Result: $20.000) |
Lot 78
A large Chinese porcelain doucai dish, Kangxi or Yongzheng
This lot was sold on 12 October 2015 and is no longer available
