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1596 A nearly identical Kangxi-marked example in the (mark)
Palace Museum, Beijing, is illustrated in Qing
AN UNUSUAL BLUE AND WHITE ‘DRAGON’ DISH Shunzhi Kangxi chao qinghua ci, Beijing, 2005, no.
KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE 95, p. 167.
PERIOD (1662-1722)
A Kangxi-marked dish with a similarly-rendered
The interior of the dish is painted in bright shades of blue with dragon but decorated in doucai enamels is in
a leaping dragon grasping a faming pearl inscribed with a shou the Tsui Art Foundation and illustrated in the
character, amidst a dense feld of fames, all below a diaper border exhibition catalogue, Joined Colors: Decoration
at the rim. A narrow petal band is on the exterior below the slightly and Meaning in Chinese Porcelain - Ceramics from
everted rim. Collectors in the Min Chiu Society, Smithsonian
Institute, Washington D.C., 1993, p. 99, no. 28.
8º in. (20.9 cm.) diam., box For another example with a similarly-rendered
dragon, see, also, the Catalog of the Special
$15,000-18,000 Exhibition of K’ang-hsi, Yung-cheng and Ch’ien-
lung Porcelain Ware from the Ch’ing Dynasty in
the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1986, no. 22.

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