KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1662-1722)

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A WUCAI DRAGON AND PHOENIX DISH
KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1662-1722)
Well painted in the center with a pair of dragons confronted between a pair of phoenixes amidst scrolling stems of peony, the design repeated as a frieze in the well and on the exterior, all within double blue- line borders, the dragons variously executed in yellow, green and aubergine glaze and in iron red
12½ in. (31.7 cm.) diam.

Provenance

The Estate of Maruja Baldwin; Christie's, New York, 22 March 1999, lot 305.

Lot Essay

A similar dish with Kangxi mark was included in the O.C.S. exhibition, The Animal in Chinese Art, 1968, no. 116. Other Kangxi-marked examples are illustrated in The Tsui Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1991, no. 102, and by J. Ayers in Far Eastern Ceramics in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1980, no. 192.

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