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PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN 清康熙 五彩穿花龍鳳紋大盤
A LARGE WUCAI ‘DRAGON AND PHOENIX’ 《大清康熙年製》款
DISH
來源：
MARK AND PERIOD OF KANGXI
香港蘇富比1991年10月29日，編號242
robustly potted with rounded sides resting on a tapered foot,
the interior brightly painted with a central medallion enclosing
two pairs of five-clawed dragons and swooping phoenix
amongst meandering sprays of large peony blooms, encircled
by two further striding dragons and flying phoenix amid
flowering peony scrolls, the exterior similarly painted with two
pairs of dragons and phoenix pacing amongst composite floral
sprays, the white base inscribed with a six-character reign
mark within a double circle
32.5 cm, 12¾ in
PROVENANCE
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 29th October 1991, lot 242.
HK$ 800,000-1,200,000
US$ 102,000-153,000
Dishes with the same composition have been included in the
Oriental Ceramic Society exhibition, The Animal in Chinese Art,
London, 1968, cat. no. 116; in The Tsui Museum of Art, Hong
Kong, 1991, cat. no. 102; and a third in the Victoria and Albert
Museum, illustrated in John Ayers, Far Eastern Ceramics in the
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1980, pl. 192 (no. C.99-
1967). Compare also a similar dish, from a Swedish private
collection, sold in our London rooms, 13th May 2015, lot 138;
and another sold in these rooms, 7th October 2015, lot 3709.

Mark

240 SOTHEBY’S 蘇富比