Lot Essay
A smaller dish (10.75cm.) of this design in the Eumorfopoulos Collection is illustrated by R. L. Hobson in the Catalogue, vol. IV, London, 1927, pl. XXVIII (D139)
WUCAI, QING FAMILLE VERTE AND GLAZED BISCUIT
A GREEN, YELLOW AND AUBERGINE-GLAZED DISH
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A GREEN, YELLOW AND AUBERGINE-GLAZED DISH
KANGXI
With shallow, rounded sides rising to a slightly everted rim, decorated with three horses galloping around the interior against a ground of black, spiralling waves scattered with prunus blossoms and evenly spaced babao, the exterior similarly decorated, but with three wave-splashed rocks below each of the interior waves, all in yellow, aubergine and white reserved on a green ground, raised on an unglazed, channeled foot surrounding a glazed base painted in underglaze blue with a babao, tiny glaze chip on rim
13½in. (34.2cm.) diam.
KANGXI
With shallow, rounded sides rising to a slightly everted rim, decorated with three horses galloping around the interior against a ground of black, spiralling waves scattered with prunus blossoms and evenly spaced babao, the exterior similarly decorated, but with three wave-splashed rocks below each of the interior waves, all in yellow, aubergine and white reserved on a green ground, raised on an unglazed, channeled foot surrounding a glazed base painted in underglaze blue with a babao, tiny glaze chip on rim
13½in. (34.2cm.) diam.