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fig.1 A wucai yellow-ground ‘dragon and 62 The present bowl is extremely rare in its
phoenix’ bowl, Kangxi mark and period. A rare doucai ‘dragon and phoenix’ bowl combination of design, yellow-wash ground
Image after Wang Qingzheng, ed., Kangxi Kangxi six-character mark and of the period and size and only one other example appears
Porcelain Ware from the Shanghai Museum Vividly enamelled with two blue five-clawed to have been published; see Wang Qingzheng,
Collection, Shanghai, 1998, pl.160; image dragons each in pursuit of a flaming pearl ed., Kangxi Porcelain Ware from the Shanghai
courtesy of Tai Yip, Hong Kong and alternating with two green, iron-red Museum Collection, Shanghai, 1998, pl.160.
and aubergine phoenix all amid cloud scrolls However for a pair of related dishes with
reserved against a pale yellow-glazed ground, dragons on a yellow-ground, see Yang Boda,
the interior white, separate ormolu mount. The Tsui Museum of Art: Chinese Ceramics
15.2cm (6in) diam. (2). IV: Qing Dynasty, Hong Kong, 1995, no.120,
£9,000 - 12,000 and for a related smaller blue-wash-ground
HK$110,000 - 140,000 CNY85,000 - 110,000 example, decorated with dragons only, see
Chinese Porcelain: The S.C. Ko Tianminlou
清康熙 鬥彩龍鳳紋碗 青花「大清康熙年製」 Collection, Part I, Hong Kong, 1987, pl.91.
楷書款 See also a similarly decorated dish, Kangxi
mark and period, illustrated in The Complete
Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum:
Porcelains in Polychrome and Contrasting
Colours, Hong Kong, 1999, pl.210.
A similar wucai bowl, Kangxi mark and period,
sold in these rooms on 12 May 2011, lot 393.
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