A pair of wucai 'dragon and phoenix' bowls


Daoguang seal marks and of the periodEach with deep rounded sides rising to a slightly everted rim, vividly enamelled in green, red, aubergine and yellow with two striding five-clawed dragons striding in pursuit of the flaming pearl, separated by two descending phoenixes amidst leafy meander, all below a band to the rim enclosing the Eight Buddhist Emblems alternating with clusters of ruyi heads, the interior similarly decorated with a sinuous iron-red dragon in pursuit of a flaming pearl amidst billowing clouds. Each 15.5cm (6 1/8in) diam. (2).
|清道光 五彩龍鳳呈祥紋盌 一對青花「大清道光年製」篆書款Provenance: an English private collection, acquired in China circa 1950, and thence by descent來源：英國私人收藏；於約1950年購自中國，並由後人保存迄今Compare a similar wucai 'dragon and phoenix' bowl, Daoguang seal mark and of the period, formerly in the Kwan Collection, illustrated in Imperial Porcelain of Late Qing, Hong Kong, 1983, pp.68, no.44.A similar wucai 'dragon and phoenix' bowl, Daoguang seal mark and of the period, was sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 4 October, lot 3736.