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- xx Chicken Cup d: 8.2 cm, Kangxi (1662-1722)
This rare doucai chicken cup, with thinly potted slightly flared sides, is decorated in underglaze blue and overglaze enamels with a twice repeated scene of a cock, a hen and three yellow chicks, separated by flowers sprouting from eroded blue rocks. The interior is undecorated, and the base has a six-character underglaze blue mark of Chenghua in a double square.
xxi One of a Pair of Saucers d: 15.5 cm, Yongzheng
(1723-1735)
The centre of this imperial doucai saucer is painted with a scene of five red bats flying among the branches of an overhanging fruiting peach tree protruding from a cliff to one side, drawn in underglaze blue, over overglaze green waves. The underside with four branches of yellow lychees, each with one fruit inscribed in underglaze blue with the character shou (longevity) separated by pairs of red bats. There is a six-character underglaze blue mark of Yongzheng in a double circle on the base.
xxii Brushpot h: 14.8 cm, Yongzheng (1723-1735) >
The corners of this famille rose square-shaped brushpot are sliced off and glazed in imitation of grained wood. The borders are of simulated green-brown speckled bamboo. The four sides have panels of various birds on flowering shrubs.
The base is undecorated.
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