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A BLUE AND COPPER-RED ‘CARP’ SAUCER-
DISH
Kangxi
The deep sides rising from a channelled foot,
painted in vibrant tones of copper-red and blue with
a leaping carp above breaking waves rising towards
a setting sun on the horizon, encircled in the cavetto
by fish, crabs, shrimp, other crustacea and water
weeds, the exterior similarly painted with various fish
swimming on a diagonal wave ground with florets.
35cm (13 6/8in) diam.

£2,000 - 3,000
CNY18,000 - 27,000

清康熙 青花釉裡紅鯉躍龍門圖盤

Compare with a very similar dish, Kangxi, in the
Victoria and Albert Museum, London illustrated by
R.Kerr, Chinese Ceramics: Porcelain of the Qing
Dynasty 1644-1911, London, 1998, no.55.

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A BLUE AND WHITE DOCUMENTARY
PORCELAIN INKSTONE
Dated to 1621 and of the period
Of cylindrical form, painted on the sides with flowers
in four lobed cartouches among brocade-motifs, the
unglazed concave ink palette on the top circled by
a ringed depression, underglaze blue inscription on
the base reading ‘Wanli siqinian Xiong Bing zhiyong
mengxiayue jidan’.
9.5cm (3 3/4in) diam.
£4,000 - 6,000
CNY36,000 - 54,000

明萬曆四十七年（公元1621年）
青花錦地開光花卉紋硯台
青花「萬曆四柒年熊昺置用孟夏月吉旦」楷書銘文

The inscription can be translated as ‘On the first
day of April in the forty seventh year of the Wanli
emperor’s reign (1621), commissioned and used
by Xiong Bing’. Compare with a related blue and
white porcelain inkstone, 1591, in the Percival David
Collection at the British Museum, illustrated by 141 (reverse)
M.Medley in Illustrated Catalogue of Underglaze
Blue and Copper Red Decorated Porcelains,
London, 1976, pl.VIII, A673.

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