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AN EXTREMELY RARE PAIR OF a small number of Jiajing marked polychrome- 清康熙 五彩香草龍紋盌一對
POLYCHROME-ENAMELED ‘DRAGON’ enameled saucers of related form are known.
BOWLS the first, painted with tree shrew and grapes, 《大明嘉靖年製》仿款
QING DYNASTY, KANGXI PERIOD and the second with butterflies and rocks, 來源
both formerly in the collection of henry C.
each with finely-potted rounded sides rising schwab were gifted to the art Institute of 史蒂芬•瓊肯三世（1978年逝）收藏
from a tapered foot to a gently everted rim, the Chicago, Chicago, in 1941, acc. nos 1941.561.1-
exterior delicately enameled with two sinuous 2; another, painted with grapes, in the percival
three-clawed dragons each pursuing a ‘flaming David Collection at the British museum,
pearl’, each beast with a muscular chest and London, is illustrated in Illustrated Catalogue of
forearm and a serpentine tail issuing flame-like Ming Polychrome Wares in the Percival David
scrolls, the breath emitted in foliate wisps of Foundation of Chinese Art, London, 1978, pl.
qi, iron-red line borders at the rim and foot, the 152, and like the present example, is attributed
interior with a lotus medallion within an iron- to the Kangxi period.
red double circle, the base with an apocryphal
Jiajing mark (2) $ 20,000-30,000
Diameter 4⅜ in., 11.1 cm
PROVENANCE
Collection of stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978).

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