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PROPERTY FROM A PROMINENT PRIVATE PROVENANCE was included in the Hong Kong Oriental Ceramic
COLLECTION Society exhibition Ch’ing Polychrome Porcelain,
English Private Collection. Fung Ping Shan Museum, Hong Kong, 1977, cat.
A FINE WUCAI ‘DRAGON AND Sotheby’s London, 14th November 2001, lot 109. no. 32.
PHOENIX’ BOWL
KANGXI MARK AND PERIOD Bowls painted in brilliant wucai enamels with a See also a pair of slightly larger bowls in the
dragon and phoenix among a leafy scroll were an Palace Museum, Beijing, included in the exhibition
with deep rounded sides rising from a short innovation of the Kangxi period. This auspicious Kangxi. Empereur de Chine, Musée National du
straight foot to a gently ared rim, the exterior design, which refers to the Emperor and Empress Château de Versailles, Versailles, 2004, cat. no.
vividly decorated with a green and a red dragon and conveys the wish for a happy marriage, grew 59; and a slightly smaller bowl, also from the Qing
striding in pursuit of ‘ aming pearls’, separated in popularity in the succeeding reigns, when large Court collection and still in Beijing, illustrated
by a pair of descending phoenix, all below a band quantities of bowls of this type were produced. in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the
of the ‘Eight Buddhist Emblems’ and ruyi motifs Palace Museum. Porcelains in Polychrome and
at the rim, the interior with a medallion enclosing Kangxi mark and period bowls of three di erent Contrasting Colours, Hong Kong, 1999, pl. 135.
a red ve-clawed dragon grasping for a ‘ aming sizes from the Nanjing Museum, Nanjing, were
pearl’, the base with a six-character mark in included in the exhibition Qing Imperial Porcelain $ 20,000-30,000
underglaze blue within a double circle of the Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong Reigns,
Diameter 5¼ in., 13.2 cm Art Gallery, The Chinese University of Hong
Kong, Hong Kong, 1995, cat. no. 26; a pair in
the Shanghai Museum, Shanghai, is illustrated 2001 11 14 109
in Kangxi Porcelain Wares from the Shanghai
Museum Collection, Hong Kong, 1998, pl. 153;
a single bowl from the collection of C.P. Lin
was included in the exhibition Elegant Form
and Harmonious Decoration, Percival David
Foundation, London, 1992, cat. no. 121; and a pair
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