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A FINE WUCAI ‘DRAGON AND Bowls painted in brilliant wucai enamels with 清康熙 五彩龍鳳呈祥紋盌
PHOENIX’ BOWL a dragon and phoenix among leafy stems
KANGXI MARK AND PERIOD were an innovation of the Kangxi period. This 《大清康熙年製》款
auspicious design, which refers to the Emperor
with deep rounded sides, supported on a and Empress and conveys the wish for a happy 來源
straight foot sweeping to a gently everted rim, marriage, grew in popularity in the succeeding Marchant，倫敦，1997年3月
the exterior enameled with alternating iron- reigns, and were produced through the 出版
red and green dragons and aubergine phoenix Daoguang and Xianfeng periods.
against leafy floral stems, below a band of the Similar Kangxi mark and period bowls of three Maureen Cassidy-Geiger，《The Arnhold
‘Eight Buddhist Emblems’ and ruyi heads, all different sizes from the Nanjing Museum, Collection of Meissen Porcelain, 1710-50》，
between line borders, the interior centering a were included in the exhibition Qing Imperial 紐約，2008年，圖版354
roundel enclosing an iron-red dragon chasing
a ‘Flaming Pearl’ amidst flames, the recessed Porcelain of the Kangxi, Yongzheng and
Qianlong Reigns, Art Gallery, The Chinese
base inscribed with a six-character reign mark University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 1995,
in underglaze blue cat. no. 26; a pair in the Shanghai Museum, is
Diameter 5⅛ in., 13 cm
illustrated in Kangxi Porcelain Wares from the
PROVENANCE Shanghai Museum Collection, Hong Kong, 1998,
pl. 153; a single bowl from the collection of C.P.
Marchant, London, March 1997.
Lin was included in the exhibition Elegant Form
LITERATURE and Harmonious Decoration, Percival David
Foundation, London, 1992, cat. no. 121; and a
Maureen Cassidy-Geiger, The Arnhold pair was included in the Hong Kong Oriental
Collection of Meissen Porcelain, 1710-50, New Ceramic Society exhibition Ch’ing Polychrome
York, 2008, pl. 354.
Porcelain, Fung Ping Shan Museum, Hong
Kong, 1977, cat. no. 32.
$ 50,000-70,000
For examples sold at auction, see two sold in
these rooms, 20th March 2019, lot 531, and
13th September 2017, lot 3. See also one sold in
our London rooms, 10th May 2017, lot 228.

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