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PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE EUROPEAN LADY
(LOTS 36-38)
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A FAMILLE VERTE ‘DRAGON’ INCISED BOWL
KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE
AND OF THE PERIOD (1662-1722)
The exterior is incised with a pair of dragons, each in pursuit of a ‘faming pearl’,
over which yellow, green and aubergine enamels are applied to depict foral sprays
and butterfies.
5√ in. (14.9 cm) diam.
£8,000-12,000 $11,000-15,000
€9,200-14,000
PROVENANCE
From a private European collection amassed in the 1970s.
A pair of bowls with this similar style of decoration is in the British Museum,
illustrated by S. Vainker in. Chinese Pottery and Porcelain, London, 2005, pl.154; in
the Victoria & Albert Museum, illustrated by W. G. Gulland, Chinese Porcelain, Vol.I,
London, 1928-29, nos. 360 and 361; in Sekai Toji Zenshu, vol.12, Tokyo, 1956, pl.44;
in The Catalogue of The Eumorfopoulos Collection, Vol.5, pl.XXXVIII, London, 1926,
no.E200; and in S. Jenyns, Later Chinese Porcelain, London, 1971, pl. XXXV, fg.1.
清康熙 白地素三彩暗龍花蝶紋碗 雙圈雙行六字楷書款
來源:歐洲私人珍藏, 購於1970年代
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