Doucai silver-footed bowl, Qing Dynasty

A small porcelain bowl with ‘Doucai’ decoration with a white background and underglaze blue decorations coloured with faint coloured enamels on the glaze. It shows a network of flowering branches, full of leaves and scrolls, covering the outside, and a beautiful flower surrounded by leaves in underglaze blue on the inside. Both the mouth and the foot are covered with a silver reinforcement. A six-character stamp ‘大清乾隆年制’ is set in reserve on the base.

Height: 4 cm; Diameter: 8.3 cm