YongZheng - A FINE AND RARE DOUCAI WASHER
 
 

Finely potted in imitation of its Ming prototype with gentle rounded sides rising from a recessed base, painted in underglaze-blue and enameled on the exterior with lotus sprays, each supporting a bowl containing an auspicious emblem, all between blue line borders, the countersuck base with an apocryphal six-character Chenghua mark within a double square
2 3/4in. (6.9cm) diam.
Provenance:
Sir Harry and Lady Garner

Exhibited:
The Oriental Ceramics Society, London, 1951, no. 97.


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