JOHANNEUM MARKS N:279, KANGXI (1662-1722)

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A PAIR OF VERTE-IMARI LARGE DEEP DISHES
Johanneum marks N:279, Kangxi (1662-1722)
Each brightly decorated in the Japanese Imari style, a central medallion depicting a basket of flowers on a terrace at the centre, and three shaped panels at the sides depicting pairs of birds and a butterfly amongst flowering foliage, all decorated in the famille verte palette, the panels at the sides alternating with large blue- ground shaped panels decorated in iron-red and gilt in the Chinese Imari style with chrysanthemum and prunus sprays
15¼ in. (38.8 cm.) diam. (2)

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Lot Essay

The Johanneum marks, N:279, denote that these dishes were in the Collection of Augustus The Strong, and housed in the Japanese Palace in Dresden. A larger dish of this design from the Johanneum Palace, Dresden is illustrated by Walter Bondy, Kang-Hsi, Münich, 1923, p. 157. Another of this larger size is in the Salting Collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum, illustrated by W. B. Honey, Guide to the Later Chinese Porcelain, London, 1927, plate 118; and exhibited Porcelain for Palaces, 1650-1750, London, 1990, no. 257, p. 236. See also the plate with this design in the Mottahedeh Collection, Howard and Ayers, China for the West, London and New York, 1978, vol. I, no. 126, pp. 144 and 145.

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