A PAIR OF GREEN, AUBERGINE AND YELLOW-GLAZED DRAGON SAUCER DISHES

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A PAIR OF GREEN, AUBERGINE AND YELLOW-GLAZED DRAGON SAUCER DISHES
KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN AUBERGINE IN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD

Each interior painted with a pair of five-clawed dragons, one ascending, the other descending, contesting a flaming pearl amidst fire scrolls within a double circle, the exteriors painted with four equally-spaced bunches of grapes pendent from the rim, all in green and aubergine reserved on a yellow ground of egg-yolk tone, small crack to one--5 1/8in. (13.1cm.) diam.
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Lot Essay

A pair of Kangxi-marked dishes of this pattern is in the Umezawa Memorial Gallery, Tokyo, illustrated by Sato, Chinese Ceramics fig. 319; another pair was included in the exhibition, Selected Pieces from the Collections of the ROC Society of Art Collectors, Taiwan, 1989, no. 103; one in the Hong Kong Musuem of Art was included in the exhibition, The Wonders of the Potter's Palette, 1984, Catalogue no. 24; and another in the Percival David Foundation is illustrated in the Catalogue, section 5, no. 777