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A WUCAI ‘HUNDRED FLOWER’ DISH PROVENANCE
KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE IN Antiquaire Gaudy, Brussels, Belgium
Professor and Mrs Robert de Strycker Collection, Belgium,
UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1662-1722) 2 August 1943
The dish is thinly potted with a gently flared rim, painted in A nearly identical Kangxi mark and period dish is illustrated by Yang
the centre with a medallion enclosing the ‘hundred flowers’ Boda in The Tsui Museum of Art, Chinese Ceramics, IV, Qing Dynasty,
design, baihua, including camellia, chrysanthemum, lotus no. 95.
flower and leaf, peony, hibiscus, magnolia, pink, lingzhi fungus,
plantain leaf, narcissus, osmanthus, pomegranate flower, prunus, The ‘hundred flowers’, baihua, forms the rebus hua kai fu gui, ‘may
cockscomb, hydrangea and aster, all within a double circle in blooming flowers bring you prosperity’.
underglaze blue which repeated beneath the rim. The underside
is decorated with eight flowering branches of peony, lotus with 清康熙 五彩百花圖盤 雙圈六字楷書款
arrow leaf, pomegranate flower, gardenia, chrysanthemum, rose,
prunus and narcissus within underglaze blue double rings. 來源
8 ¿ in. (20.6 cm.) diam. Antiquaire Gaudy，布魯塞爾，比利時
Robert de Strycker 教授伉儷珍藏， 比利時，1943年8月2日購入
HK$300,000-400,000 US$39,000-52,000
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