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A BLUE AND WHITE ‘FISHERMAN’ DISH, QING
DYNASTY, KANGXI PERIOD
the base with a four-character hall mark reading buyitang zhi
in underglaze blue within a double circle
Diameter 6¼ in., 15.8 cm

PROVENANCE
Marchant, London.
⊖ $ 1,500-2,000

清康熙 青花山水獨釣圖盤
《不易堂製》款
來源：
馬錢特，倫敦

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A BLUE AND WHITE ‘MASTER OF THE ROCKS’
DISH, QING DYNASTY, KANGXI PERIOD
the base with an apocryphal Chenghua six-character mark in
underglaze blue within a double circle 316
Diameter 8 in., 20.3 cm
A LARGE AND RARE UNDERGLAZE-BLUE AND 清康熙 青花釉裏紅荷塘圖盤 《大清康熙年
A closely related dish, possibly from the same set, is in the COPPER-RED ‘LOTUS POND’ DISH, MARK AND 製》款
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, included in Eastern Ceramics PERIOD OF KANGXI
and Other Works of Art from the Collection of Gerald
Reitlinger, Oxford, 1981, cat. no. 92. See a blue and white the base with a six-character mark in underglaze blue within
dish in a similar style, in the Sir Michael Butler Collection, a double circle
Diameter 13⅝ in., 34. 5 cm
illustrated in Katherine Butler and Theresa Canepa,
Leaping the Dragon Gate. The Sir Michael Butler Collection Painted in broad brushstrokes, the present dish depicts a
of Seventeenth-Century Chinese Porcelain, London, 2021, lovely lotus pond scene where a bird is perched on a lotus
p. 459. branch amongst lotus flowers, buds, leaves and tall grass
sprays. Produced during the early Kangxi period, the dish is
⊖ $ 3,000-4,000 remarkable for its large size and dynamic painting. Dishes
bearing a similar mark are rare and no other dish similarly
清康熙 青花山水圖盤 decorated appears to be recorded.
《大明成化年製》仿款
⊖ $ 6,000-8,000
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300 SOTHEBY’S COMPLETE CATALOGUING AVAILABLE AT SOTHEBYS.COM/N11410 KANGXI PORCELAIN FROM A BRITISH PRIVATE COLLECTION 301