Description

A Chinese imperial porcelain doucai deep dish of ogee form, finely painted on the interior with the eight attributes of the Daoist immortals, anbaxian, each ribbon-tied in blue enamel, ruby enamel, yellow and iron red, amongst flower sprays, and within two pairs of underglaze blue rings, encircling a central mallow flowerhead, itself within an inter-linked profile branch of pendant, peaches and chrysanthemum, the underside with eight elaborate flowerheads painted in pairs on a dense floral ground with leaves in different tones of green and buds, all above a lappet and ruyi-head border.

8 inches, 20.4 cm diameter.

The base with a six-character sealmark of Guangxu in underglaze blue and of the period, 1875 to 1908.

Provenance & Additional Information:

From the collection of Greenwald (sticker). A similar deep dish with Daoguang mark is illustrated by Peter Lam in Imperial Porcelain of Late Qing, from the Kwan Collection, Art Gallery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1983, no. 33, p. 61.

Note: Extra condition images and video attached under natural light for more information.