A LARGE BLUE AND WHITE 'BACCHUS' DISH
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A LARGE BLUE AND WHITE 'BACCHUS' DISH

KANGXI (1662-1722)

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A LARGE BLUE AND WHITE 'BACCHUS' DISH
KANGXI (1662-1722)
Painted in a central roundel with the god holding up a goblet of wine, wearing a wreath of fruiting vine around his head and around his waist and standing on a tiled floor on a terrace, all encircled by a wide band of meandering fruiting vine branches, the everted rim moulded and painted with petals, rim chips
14¾ in. (47.4 cm.) diam.
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Lot Essay

This dish was probably intended for use as a tray. A similar dish, in the Hodroff Gallery at Winterthur Museum, Delaware, is illustrated by D. S. Howard, The Choice of the Private Trader, London, 1994, p. 40, no. 5. Another dish was in the Mottahedeh Collection, illustrated by Howard and Ayers, China for the West, London and New York, 1978, vol. I, p. 76, no. 34. Other examples are in the British Museum and in the Victoria and Albert Museum.

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