A CHINESE DOUCAI ‘DRAGON AND PHOENIX’ DOUBLE GOURD VASE, HULUPING

A CHINESE DOUCAI ‘DRAGON AND PHOENIX’ DOUBLE GOURD VASE, HULUPING
19TH CENTURY

The upper and lower body sections each brightly enamelled in polychrome and outlined in underglaze blue with a four-clawed dragon and a phoenix amidst peony flowers and leaves, the rim with a double line border, 28.7cm.

Provenance: an English private collection, Kent, in the same family collection since at least the 1960s.

The technique of producing doucai wares was developed in the Chenghua period, 1426-35. Doucai wares continued to be appreciated for their understated elegance and for their association with Chenghua porcelain during the Qing dynasty and were especially favoured by the Yongzheng and Qianlong emperors.

Cf. Sotheby’s, Hong Kong, 26th October 2003, lot 4, for a doucai double-gourd vase similarly painted with the dragon and phoenix design and for a doucai yuhuchunping also decorated with dragon and phoenix, see Sotheby’s, Hong Kong, 8th April 2007, lot 514.

十九世紀 鬥彩龍鳳呈祥紋葫蘆瓶
來源：英國坎特私人收藏，1960年代之前收藏。