A DOUCAI 'ANBAXIAN' OGEE BOWL SEAL MARK AND PERIOD OF QIANLONG

the bowl of ogee form rising from a tapered foot, the interior with a flat central well decorated with an interlinked scroll border enclosing a swirled roundel issuing alternating yellow and blue flames, surrounded by four peaches born on the leafy scroll border, the cavetto finely decorated with the anbaxian emblems, each accentuated with billowing ribbons, the exterior brightly decorated with eight stylised floral blooms borne on undulating leafy scrolls above a border of ruyi-heads alternating with upright lappets, the base inscribed in underglaze blue with a six-character seal mark

Sotheby's Hong Kong, 17th May 1988, lot 210.
Sotheby's Hong Kong, 30th October 2000, lot 166.

There is an approx. 5.5 cm hairline crack from the rim. The enamels, however, have been generally well preserved with only some minor surface scratches.
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