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A LARGE WUCAI ‘FLORAL’ DISH A LARGE WUCAI ‘FLORAL’ DISH
QING DYNASTY, 17TH CENTURY QING DYNASTY, 17TH CENTURY
the rounded sides rising to an everted rim, painted in iron- painted on the interior in red, green, yellow, aubergine, and
red, green, yellow and aubergine enamels, the interior with black enamels with a central medallion of ve oral sprays
a barbed panel enclosing a central peony ower amidst a against a trellis diaper encircled by concentric bands of ruyi
scattered array of leafy blooms, surrounded by a diaper band, heads, further diaper, and peony scroll, the exterior with three
the cavetto with large peony blooms and scrolling foliage on boldly-painted oral sprigs in red and green between an iron-
a ‘roe’ ground, the underside with four evenly spaced oral red classic scroll upper border and a lower border of triangular
sprays lappets in alternating colors
Diameter 15⅜ in., 39 cm Diameter 13⅛ in., 33.3 cm
PROVENANCE $ 2,000-3,000
Collection of Yvonne Costello Gould (1918-2016), Montreal,
Canada. 㶭⋩ᶫᶾ䲨ġġġḼ⼑拎⛘剙⋱䲳⣏䚌
A nearly identical dish but with a channel foot, and attributed
to the rst half of the Kangxi period, is illustrated in Christiaan
J.A. Jörg, Famille Verte Chinese Porcelains in Green Enamels,
Groninger Museum, Groningen, 2011, cat. no. 18.
$ 3,000-5,000
㶭⋩ᶫᶾ䲨ġġġḼ⼑剙⋱䲳⣏䚌
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