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A LARGE YELLOW-GROUND GREEN AND 清康熙 黃地素三彩龍戲珠花卉紋折沿大盤
雙圈六字楷書款
AUBERGINE-ENAMELLED ‘DRAGON’ DISH
來源
KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A Bluett & Sons，倫敦

DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1662-1722)

The dish is incised and painted to the centre in green, aubergine
and cream enamels with two scaly five-clawed dragons contending
a flaming pearl amongst cloud and fire-scrolls beneath a band of
prunus, camellia, chrysanthemum, peony and lotus on the well,
the flat everted border decorated with six dragons chasing flaming
pearls, the exterior decorated with similar dragons on the rounded
sides beneath a band of cloud-scrolls and cranes.
16 ¿ in. (40.7 cm.) diam., Japanese wood box

HK$1,200,000-2,400,000 US$160,000-310,000

PROVENANCE

Bluett & Sons, London

Compare to a closely related dish from the Jinguantang Collection,
sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 2 November 1999, lot 578. The
Jinguantang dish was formerly in the Collection of Captain C. Oswald
Liddell, no. 153, and was exhibited with its pair at Bluett and Sons,
London and subsequently sold at Christie’s London, 19 April 1983,
lot 380.

Other published examples of dishes of this size and pattern include a
dish illustrated in Qing Porcelain of Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong
Periods from the Palace Museum Collection, Hong Kong, 1989, p. 122,
no. 105; one in the National Palace Museum, illustrated in Enameled
Ware of the Ch’ing Dynasty, Book I, Hong Kong, 1969, pp. 62-63, pl.
7-7b; and another by J. Ayers, Far Eastern Ceramics in the Victoria and
Albert Museum, London, 1980, fig. 197.

Compare also with Kangxi dishes of this pattern without everted rims,
such as the example illsutsrated by Hobson in The Eumofopoulos
Collection, London, 1928, vol. V, pl. XXVIII, E. 199.

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