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A WUCAI ‘DRAGON AND PHOENIX’ BOWL
KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1662-1722)
The exterior is decorated with one iron-red and one green dragon each chasing a faming pearl amongst scrolling fowers, separated
by downward-swooping phoenixes, all below a band of bajixiang and ruyi heads to the rim. There is an iron-red dragon amongst green
fames in the interior.
6 in. (15.3 cm.) diam.
£7,000-10,000 $8,800-13,000
€8,100-12,000
PROVENANCE (mark)
Old private UK collection.
A pair of bowls with this design was included in the Hong Kong O.C.S. Exhibition of Ch’ing Polychrome Porcelain, 1979, no. 32, and a
single bowl is illustrated in the The Tsui Museum of Art: Chinese Ceramics IV; Qing Dynasty, Hong Kong, 1995, no. 96. See, also, the
pair sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 28 May 2014, lot 3317.
清康熙 五彩龍鳳紋碗 雙圈六字楷書款
來源：英國私人舊藏
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