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A RARE YELLOW-GROUND GREEN-ENAMELLED The present bowl is rare and unique to the Kangxi period, depicting
‘DRAGON AND PHOENIX’ BOWL both phoenix roundels below dragons in a green and yellow palette.
Kangxi six-character mark and of the period Yellow-glazed wares with green dragons are mentioned in Palace
With deep rounded sides rising from a tapered foot to a gently flaring regulations as having been reserved for the Imperial consorts or the
rim, the exterior delicately incised and enamelled in green on a bright highest-ranking concubines. The present variation of ‘phoenix and
egg-yolk yellow ground with a band of two five-clawed dragons dragon’ bowls may have been produced for a special occasion, such
striding amongst flames in pursuit of flaming pearls, above five as a birthday, as suggested by the auspicious ‘longevity’ (shou 壽)
phoenix roundels divided by stylised cloud scrolls, the interior painted character depicted on the interior.
in underglaze blue with a central medallion enclosing a stylised shou
character within double-line borders repeated at the rim. Only a small number of this type of bowl has been published.
15cm (5 8/9in) diam. An identical bowl, Kangxi mark and period, in the National Palace
Museum, Taipei, is illustrated in Good Fortune, Long Life, Health, and
£30,000 - 50,000 Peace: A Special Exhibition of Porcelains with Auspicious Designs,
CNY260,000 - 440,000 Taipei, 1995, pl.19; a second example, Kangxi mark and period,
formerly in the Tsui Museum of Art, is illustrated in Chinese Ceramics
IV. Qing Dynasty, Hong Kong, 1995, pl.111, and a third bowl is
清康熙 黃地綠彩龍鳳紋盌 illustrated by S.Jenyns, Later Chinese Porcelain, London, 1951,
青花「大清康熙年製」楷書款 pl.LXIX, no.2.

Provenance: a European private collection Compare with a very similar bowl, Kangxi six-character mark and of
the period, which was sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 1 June 2011,
來源：歐洲私人收藏 lot 2863.

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