A SMALL DOUCAI DOUBLE-GOURD FLASK

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PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED NEW YORK FAMILY

A SMALL DOUCAI DOUBLE-GOURD FLASK

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A SMALL DOUCAI DOUBLE-GOURD FLASK
The vase is elegantly potted with an olive-shaped upper bulb above a compressed globular body, applied with two ruyi-scepter handles. It is enameled on one side of the lower body with two descending dragons picked out in tones of green and aubergine enclosing a shou roundel, surmounted by a bat on the upper body. The design is repeated on the reverse side with the dragons enameled in red and yellow. The base is inscribed with a Jiaqing seal mark in underglaze blue.

6 ½ in. (16.5 cm.) high

Provenance

In the current family’s collection before 1980, and thence by descent.

Lot Essay

A Jiaqing-marked blue and white double-gourd vase with similar decoration, but with more slender handles, is illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum – Blue and White Porcelain and Underglazed Red (III), Hong Kong 2000, p. 160, no. 146. See, also, the Jiaqing-marked blue and white vase with similar design and with handles similar to those on the current vase, sold at Christie’s New York, 17-18 March 2016, lot 1612.

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