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Various Owners 各方藏家                                                        32
                                                                           A rare blue and white ‘dragon’ dish
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A blue and white ‘lotus’ bowl                                              Thinly potted with a flaring rim, densely painted at the centre with a
Kangxi six-character mark and of the period                                full-faced ferocious dragon grasping a flaming pearl enclosing a shou
Finely painted on the exterior with a continuous delicate meander          (longevity) character amidst fire scrolls, encircled by a wide diaper border
issuing six fully-blooming lotus flowers and scrolling leaves above a row  below the rim, the underside with a narrow band of lappets.
of lappets at the foot, the interior with a single lotus blossom amid six  21.1cm (8 1/3in) diam.
scrolling leaves in the central well.                                      £20,000 - 30,000
16.4cm (6¼in) diam.                                                        HK$240,000 - 350,000 CNY190,000 - 280,000
£2,000 - 3,000
HK$24,000 - 35,000 CNY19,000 - 28,000                                      清康熙 青花龍紋盤 青花「大清康熙年製」楷書款

清康熙 青花纏枝蓮紋碗 青花「大清康熙年製」楷書款

Compare a very similar bowl from the Art Gallery of the Chinese
University of Hong Kong, illustrated in Qing Imperial Porcelain of the
Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong Reigns, Hong Kong, 1995, no.19.

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