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A RARE LARGE SANCAI!GLAZED DISH
KANGXI MARK AND PERIOD
freely splashed all over with emerald-green, marigold-yellow,
and bright aubergine enamels, the centre delicately incised
with a ferocious dragon writhing amidst cloud scrolls and
ß ames to reach for a ‘ß aming pearl’, the cavetto incised with
various blossoming ß owers and leafy foliage, the exterior
similarly decorated with Þ ve further incised dragons chasing
the ß aming pearls, inscribed in underglaze blue with a six-
character mark within a double-circle
32.2 cm, 12⅝ in.
A closely related dish in the Victoria and Albert Museum,
London, is illustrated in Rose Kerr, Chinese Ceramics. Porcelain
of the Qing Dynasty 1644-1911, London, 1986, pl. 83; another,
from the collection of Mr and Mrs Ira M. Koger, and now in the
John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, is published
in John Ayers, Chinese Ceramics. The Koger Collection. New
York, 1985, pl. 102; and a bowl of this type, but without the
incised dragon decoration, from the Qing Court Collection
and still in Beijing, is illustrated in The Complete Collection of
Treasures of the Palace Museum, Miscellaneous Enamelled
Porcelains Plain Tricoloured Porcelains, Hong Kong, 2009, pl.
226.
£ 30,000-50,000
HK$ 332,000-555,000 US$ 42,300-70,500
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