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SOLD BY ORDER OF THE TRUSTEES OF
THE WILLIAM MERTON WILL TRUST (LOTS 1-6)
1 See a closely related dish from the Jinguantang Collection,
sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 2 November 1999, lot 578. The
A LARGE YELLOW-GROUND GREEN AND AUBERGINE- Jinguantang dish was formerly in the Collection of Captain
ENAMELLED ‘DRAGON’ DISH C. Oswald Liddell, no. 153, and was exhibited with its pair at
KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE Bluett and Sons, London and subsequently sold at Christie’s
BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD London, 19 April 1983, lot 380. Other published examples
(1662-1722) of dishes of this size and pattern include one illustrated in
Qing Porcelain of Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong Periods
The interior is impressed and decorated in green, aubergine and from the Palace Museum Collection, Hong Kong, 1989, p. 122,
cream enamels with two fve-clawed dragons chasing a faming no. 105; one in the National Palace Museum, illustrated in
pearl, surrounded by a band of foral sprays in the well. The Enameled Ware of the Ch’ing Dynasty, Book I, Hong Kong,
everted border is decorated with six dragons, and the exterior is 1969, pp. 62-63, pl. 7-7b; and another by J. Ayers, Far Eastern
similarly decorated beneath a band of cloud-scrolls and cranes. Ceramics in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1980,
16¿ in. (41 cm.) diam. fg. 197. The design of the current dish appears to be based on
Wanli prototypes, such as the small dish (measuring 28.3cm.)
£60,000-80,000 $78,000-100,000 decorated with a related design of two dragons chasing a
faming pearl below foral sprays in the well and painted on the
€69,000-92,000 biscuit in a similar palette, included in the exhibition Ceramic
Evolution in the Middle Ming Period, Hongzhi to Wanli (1488-
PROVENANCE 1620), 8 September 1994 - 7 February 1995, and illustrated by
R. Scott and R. Kerr in the Catalogue, Singapore, 1997, p. 27,
From the collection of Mr. William Merton, acquired in the early no. 41.
20th century.
清康熙 黃地素三彩雙龍戲珠紋大盤
雙圈雙行六字楷書款
來源: 英國藏家William Merton先生舊藏, 於二十世紀初入藏
2 FINE CHINESE CERAMICS AND WORKS OF ART
