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A YELLOW-ENAMELED
BLUE-GROUND ‘DRAGON’ DISH
KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE
WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1662-1722)
The interior is decorated with a fve-clawed dragon writhing amidst Kangxi mark-and-period ‘dragon’ dishes of this design and comparable
clouds and fames in pursuit of a faming pearl, below two further size include the example from the Palace Museum, Beijing, included
dragons chasing faming pearls amidst clouds in the well, and the in the exhibition Empresses of China’s Forbidden City, 1644-1912,
exterior is similarly decorated above a band of petal lappets, all in lemon Peabody Essex Museum and Freer Sackler, Smithsonian Institution,
yellow reserved on an underglaze-blue ground.
18 August 2008 – 23 June 2019, p. 62, fg. 2, cat. no. 125; the dish
9√ in. (25.6 cm.) diam. published in the Illustrated Catalogues of Tokyo National Museum:
Chinese Ceramics, Tokyo, 1965, p. 147, no. 615; and the dish illustrated
in Mayuyama Seventy Years, vol. 1, Tokyo, 1976, no. 1047. See, also, the
$20,000-30,000
similar Kangxi ‘dragon’ dish from the Ji Rui Tang Collection sold at
Sotheby’s New York, 20 March 2018, lot 319.
PROVENANCE
Mrs. Siegfried G. Schmidt Collection. 清康熙 藍地黃釉遊龍戲珠紋盤 雙圈六字楷書款
The Art Institute of Chicago, accessioned in 1966.

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