A Doucai plate with the mark “Made in the Guangxu reign of the Great Qing Dynasty”, featuring the Eight Immortals.
A Doucai plate with the mark “Made in the Guangxu reign of the Great Qing Dynasty”, featuring the Eight Immortals.
Catalog Number: 237
Diameter 21cm
“Daqing Guangxu Nian Zhi” six-character double-line regular script inscription
Starting Price: RMB 17,000
Open mouth, folded waist, and hollowed-out ring foot. The entire dish is glazed in white, decorated with doucai. First outlined in blue and white, then filled with red, green, and yellow colors, the colors are gorgeous. The inner wall is decorated with doucai's Eight Immortals pattern within a double circle of blue and white, and the inner center is decorated with lotus leaves, lotus flowers, and peaches. The outer wall is painted with entwined floral patterns using the same method, and a band of ruyi cloud head patterns is decorated near the bottom. The base is inscribed with blue and white.