QING DOUCAI ENAMELS
A RARE YELLOW-GROUND DOUCAI DRAGON DISH

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A RARE YELLOW-GROUND DOUCAI DRAGON DISH
ENCIRCLED KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

The interior painted and enamelled with a full-faced five-clawed dragon and a flaming pearl amidst clouds and fire-scrolls, the reverse with a further striding dragon and long-tailed phoenix divided by a further iron-red pearl, all amidst clouds above cresting waves and stylised rocks reserved on a finely-crackled yellow ground
8 1/4in. (21cm.) diam., box

Lot Essay

An identical dish sold in these Rooms, 20 March 1990, lot 644. Cf. also a doucai dish of this design reserved on a white ground in the National Palace Museum, Taibei, Enamelled Ware of the Ch'ing Dynasty, Catalogue, Book 1, pls. 6-6e; and another sold in these Rooms, 13 January 1987, lot 487

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