A RARE CHINESE DOUCAI DOUBLE WATER POT AND COVER

A RARE CHINESE DOUCAI DOUBLE WATER POT AND COVER
YONGZHENG 1723-35

Moulded in the form of a figure of eight, the cover delicately painted with two shou characters, which are encircled by five bats and with a narrow border of the Three Friends of Winter, pine, prunus and bamboo; the body with rounded sides, painted with four stylised, scrolling motifs between spearhead borders, together with a wood stand, 10 cm. (3)

Provenance: purchased from Sotheby's New York, 30th March 2006, part of lot 370.

Cf. The British Museum, London, no.1947,0712.225, for another example bequeathed by Henry J Oppenheim, a prominent member of the Oriental Ceramic Society.

清雍正 鬥彩螭龍福壽紋帶蓋雙聯水盂

來源：購於蘇富比紐約, 2006年3月30日·編號370。