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A BLUE AND WHITE 'DRAGON' BOWL
KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE
WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1662-1722)
The exterior is finely decorated with four striding four-clawed dragons
above foaming waves, and the interior has a single four-clawed dragon
encircling a flaming pearl in the central medallion.
8º in. (20.9 cm.) diam.

$20,000-30,000
It is very rare to find a blue and white Kangxi bowl decorated with
dragons against a plain white ground. More typically, a bowl might
be decorated with two dragons amidst fire and cloud scrolls, such as
the bowl sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 12 September 2018, lot 106,
or a ‘dragon’ bowl with fu (happiness) and shou (longevity) characters
supported on lingzhi fungus, illustrated in Kangxi Porcelain Wares from
the Shanghai Museum Collection, Hong Kong, 1998, pp. 26-27, no. 18.
However a smaller bowl (15.9 cm. diam.), decorated with dragons on
a white background in pursuit of flaming pearls, is illustrated idem.,
pp. 20, no. 13; and a vase of similar design with a dragon on a white
background is illustrated idem., pp. 19, no. 12.

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