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331     AN IRON-RED AND                 ⌲Ꮴ⛆   ⹙㈲ᒖߍρᒖ᣼䛾ส㔮ృ
                GILT ‘IMMORTALS’                            ᯄݨ䰟咺㈸Ⱁ
                ANHUA DISH


                Qing Dynasty, Kangxi Period
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                ! nely painted, the interior enclosing a central   Most likely produced around the time of the   ⧍侚⢕㡦䖤2001䎃6剢19傈管贫93
                medallion depicting Shoulao seated under   Kangxi emperor’s sixtieth birthday (1713),   䗱꧉㛔  Berwald Oriental Art ⧍侚
                the stars reading a scroll in a rocky celestial   the present dish belongs to group that often
                landscape accompanied by a deer and an   bear an imperial reign mark. A nearly identical
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                attendant, the cavetto deftly incised with   dish bearing a six-character Kangxi mark in
                                                                                Je" rey P  StamenCynthia Volk ⿻⧋❠俛
                two scaly dragons pursuing ‘Flaming Pearls’,   underglaze blue on the base from the Zhuyue
                                                                                շ俒ꅷ⼾搭 : 悦誩㛔询䐁擳渿⚆櫙ո䋒ス
                the exterior with the Eight Immortals amid   Tang Collection is published in Peter Y. K. Lam,
                                                                                饟2017䎃㕬晝79
                the cresting waves of a turbulent sea, each   ‘Myriad Longevity without Borders: Some
                poised atop an array of fanciful conveyances,   Wing Imperial Birthday Ceramics from Hong
                the attributes and other details picked out in   Kong Collections’, Arts of Asia, vol. 40, no.
                famille-verte enamels and gilt, coll. no. 480.  5, September - October 2010, pl. 3. Another
                                                dish from the Tsui Museum of Art, also with
                Diameter 8⅛ in., 20.5 cm
                                                a Kangxi reign mark, is illustrated in the
                PROVENANCE                      Exhibition of Art Treasures from Shanghai and
                                                Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 1996, cat. no. 52.
                Christie’s London, 19th June 2001, lot 93.
                Berwald Oriental Art, London.
                LITERATURE
                Je" rey P. Stamen and Cynthia Volk with Yibin
                Ni, A Culture Revealed: Kangxi-era Chinese
                Porcelain from the Jie Rui Tang Collection,
                Bruges, 2017, pl. 79.
                $ 10,000-15,000













































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