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PROVENANCE The spontaneity and con! dent brushwork ink techniques is a highlight of Kangxi period
used to depict the $ owers on the present dish porcelains produced to appeal to the exacting
Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York, 1998.
is exceptional. The washy, textural quality taste of the scholarly elite. A dish of this type,
LITERATURE of the leaves and petals evoke the dry brush but with underglaze-red and underglaze-blue
Je" rey P. Stamen and Cynthia Volk with Yibin technique perfected in the Song dynasty. The $ ora, from the collection of Ernest Grandidier
Ni, A Culture Revealed: Kangxi-era Chinese lavish spattering of deep blue dots add weight is now in the Musée Guimet, Paris (coll. no.
Porcelain from the Jie Rui Tang Collection, and depth to the curling edges of the large G2478).
Bruges, 2017, pl. 42. lotus leaf. The use of such overtly painterly
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