KANGXI (1662-1722)

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A FINE LARGE FAMILLE VERTE CHARGER
Kangxi (1662-1722)
Brightly decorated with iron-red, green, yellow, and aubergine enamels, on the interior with a stylised floral bloom within a medallion encircled by eight radiating petal-shaped panels, each panel decorated with different flowering branches, the border with a diaper-band evenly divided with six floral sprays, each within a cartouche, the exterior undecorated
14 in. (35.5 cm.) diam., box

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Lot Essay

Compare a similarly decorated, smaller, dish in the Percival David Foundation, dated c. 1670, and inscribed on the base Shende tang quangu zhi (An antique made for the Shende Pavilion), Illustrated Catalogue of Ming Polychrome Wares, London, 1978, no. 141.

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