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With rampant five-clawed dragons soaring through the Only a small number of Yongzheng dishes of this type are
swirling clouds, these dishes are a prime example of the rare known. Compare a closely related example, formerly in the
combination of iron-red enamels and a café-au-lait ground. E.T. Hall Collection, included in the exhibition Iron in the
The design follows earlier Kangxi period dishes, such as Fire: The Chinese Potters’ Exploration of Iron Oxide Glazes,
one with an iron-red dragon on white ground, illustrated in Ashmolean Museum, London, 1988, cat. no. 81, and sold at
Yuci yizhen / Treasures of Imperial Porcelain, Hangzhou, Christie’s Hong Kong, 28th May 2021, lot 2941; another sold
2011, pp. 26-27; and is also related to pieces in green in our New York rooms, 19th September 2023, lot 510. The
enamel, see an example in the Princessehof Museum, only other pair of this type to be sold at auction at Christie’s
Leeuwarden, illustrated in Barbara Harrison, Keramik uit Hong Kong, 1st October 1991, lot 846.
Azie, Leeuwarden, 1985, pl. 126; and another included in
the exhibition The Wonders of the Potter’s Palette, Hong
Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1984, cat. no. 26. The only
known Kangxi prototypes with iron-red on café-au-lait were
sold as a set of three in our New York rooms, 18-19th April
1989, lot 341.
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