A doucai ogee-form 'eight Daoist emblems' dish

Jiaqing seal mark and period

清嘉慶 鬥彩暗八仙紋折腰盤

《大清嘉慶年製》款

the flaring sides resting on a straight foot, the cavetto evenly spaced with 'Eight Daoist Emblems' each decorated with ribbons and a floral bough between underglaze-blue double-line borders, the well with a lobed medallion of green-enameled interlocking stems issuing peaches and lotus blossoms toward a central flowerhead, the reverse richly enameled with scrolling foliate vines bearing buds and blossoms, a band of upright ruyi heads encircling the foot, the base with a six-character seal mark in underglaze blue

Diameter 8 in., 20.3 cm

Bluett & Sons Ltd., London.

Canadian Private Collection, acquired from the above between the 1960s and 1980s, and thence by descent. 

來源

Bluett & Sons Ltd.，倫敦

加拿大私人收藏，1960年代至1980年代購於上述處，此後家族傳承