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Chinese early 18th century rare pair of Doucai Bowls made during the reign of the Emperor Kangxi at the kilns at Jingdezhen.
painted to the outside with swimming golden carp - gold fish - I a pool with lotus and lilies. They are painted in a vertically striped water representing ripples. The inside has plain sides and to the base the pattern is repeated with a single fish in the water with lotus and lilies.
the base has a double circle around an apocryphal earlier Ming mark for the Emperor Xuande. The mark is to honour not to deceive
The pattern with gold fish and lotus represents a wish for gold in abundance with wishes for gold and jade in particular.
Excellent quality
Dimensions
18cm Diameter 8cm tallCondition report
One bowl has a neatly filled small filled chip to the foot rim and a firing small area of discolouration to the rim of the bowl in a small area second bowl has a few very neatly filled very shallow fits to the rim and a very small filled hair line to the insideStock number
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