SAUCER  DISH .    diam:   22 cm.

Finely potted , and decorated in  DOUCAI famille verte enamels ; the central medaillon  is painted within a double circle in underglaze-blue, illustrating 3 stylized phoenix birds encircling a central lotus blossom, amid foliage ;  all this repeated as a freeze around the back-side rim, above a band of C-scrolls around the foot .

period :     QIANLONG  :   1735 - 1790 .

mark  :    6 character seal-mark in underglaze-blue . (see next foto )

referen.:   " The Edouard CHOW Collection" , Hong Kong Sotheby's, sale
                  of 19/5/1981 , lot 554.

               " Archives of the Chinese Art Society of America  : Kuan Yao 
                  and Minyao"  ,  1959 , pl. VII , 1.

               " Imperial Porcelain of late Qing from the KWAN Collection" ,
                 Catal.National Museum Taipei, 1985 , pl. 29.

               " Sekai Toji Zenshu", Umezawa Kinenkan Museum,pl.240.

                " Qing mark and period Monochromes " ,S.Marchant & Son
                 exhibition catal.  1981 ,  n° 48.

                " The JARRAS Collection ", Christie's Swire Hong Kong ,n°317.
                

proven.      the VP Collection   ( Den Haag ) ,  n° 103.     Perfect  condition.

Doucai , literally " contending colours ", is a style of polychrome decoration which allies underglaze- cobaltblue in the outlines of the design, with soft- fired overglaze enamels.