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A YELLOW-GROUND GREEN AND AUBERGINE-ENAMELLED
‘DRAGON’ DISH
KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A
DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1662-1722)
The centre of the dish is decorated with two incised dragons contesting a
faming pearl amidst fame scrolls within a double-line border. The exterior is
decorated with four pairs of grape bunches hanging from the rim. The dish is
decorated in aubergine and green enamels reserved on a pale egg yolk-yellow
ground.
5º in. (13.3 cm.) diam.
£12,000-15,000 $17,000-21,000
€14,000-17,000
(mark)
PROVENANCE
Formerly in a private European collection.
Compare a similarly decorated Qianlong mark and period dish sold at
Christie’s Hong Kong, 30 November, 2011, lot 3132 and two published
examples, one in The Wonders of the Potter’s Palette, Hong Kong Museum
of Art, 1984-1985, no. 24; and another held in the Percival David Foundation,
illustrated in Margaret Medley in the Catalogue, Section 5, 1978, pl. XII,
no. 146.

清康熙 黃地紫綠彩雙龍戲珠紋盤 雙圈六字楷書款
來源:歐洲私人舊藏

206 Other fees apply in addition to the hammer price – see Section D of our Conditions of Sale at the back of this Catalogue