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PROPERTY FROM A NEW YORK FAMILY PROVENANCE
COLLECTION
Chait Galleries, New York, 1980s.
A RARE GREEN-GROUND AND
IRON-RED ‘DRAGON’ DISH Compare a similar dish of this type from the
KANGXI MARK AND PERIOD Palace Museum, in Beijing, illustrated in The
Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace
the rounded sides rising to a gently everted Museum, Miscellaneous Enamelled Porcelains
rim, painted to the interior in iron-red with a Plain Tricoloured Porcelains, Beijing, 2009, pl. 60.
dragon leaping in pursuit of a ‘ aming pearl’
amid aming clouds, the cavetto with two similar $ 15,000-25,000
dragons striding in mutual pursuit, repeated
on the underside, all reserved on a ground of Chait Galleries 1980
semi-translucent pale green, the base with a
six-character mark within a double circle in
underglaze blue
Diameter 8½ in., 21.6 cm

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