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PROPERTY FROM A NEW YORK COLLECTION

A POWDER-BLUE AND COPPER-
RED ‘DRAGON’ DISH
QING DYNASTY, KANGXI PERIOD

the shallow rounded sides continuing to a broad
at rim, the interior with a four-clawed dragon

striding in pursuit of a ‘ aming pearl’ painted in a
grayish tone of copper-red, all on a nely mottled
cobalt blue ground, the base with an apocryphal
Chenghua mark
Diameter 10¾ in., 27.3 cm

PROVENANCE

Berwald Oriental Art, London, circa 2000.

Among the many technical achievements of
the Kangxi period was the reintroduction of
underglaze copper-red. Due to the di culty ring
the color, red had not been successfully produced
since the early Ming period. The combined palette
of powder-blue and copper-red was produced in
the later years of the Kangxi period from about
1700-1720. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam holds
many examples of this type including a covered
box decorated with copper-red dragons similar to
the present example and illustrated in Christiaan
J.A. Jörg, Chinese Ceramics in the Collection of
the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, London, 1997,
pl. 129. Another similar dish, but painted with a
lady in the center, from the Collection of John and
Julia Curtis, was sold at Christie’s New York, 16th
March 2015, lot 3585.

$ 7,000-9,000

Berwald Oriental Art 2000

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PROPERTY FROM A NEW YORK COLLECTION

A LARGE WUCAI ‘DAOIST
PANTHEON’ BEAKER VASE
QING DYNASTY, SHUNZHI PERIOD

modeled after the archaic gu form, painted with
Shoulao riding a crane and the Eight Daoist
Immortals with their attributes in a heavenly
garden amongst billowing clouds below a band
of cracked-ice pattern encircling the mouth, the
central section painted with chrysanthemums
and peonies springing from rocks, the lower
section with peaches and pomegranates
Height 20⅞ in., 53 cm

$ 7,000-9,000

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