KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN DOUBLE-CIRCLES AND OF THE PERIOD (1662-1722)

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A FINE AND RARE GREEN AND YELLOW-ENAMELLED 'DRAGON AND PHOENIX' BOWL
KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN DOUBLE-CIRCLES AND OF THE PERIOD (1662-1722)
Finely potted with rounded sides rising to an everted rim, the upper band of the exterior decorated with a pair of striding dragons pursuing a 'flaming pearl' above a lower section of phoenix roundels divided by trefoil clouds, the interior central medallion painted in underglaze-blue within a double circle enclosing a shou character in simplified seal script amidst scrolling clouds, within double-line borders
5 7/8 in. (15 cm.) diam., box

Provenance

Robert Peters Antiques, 1998

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Lot Essay

An identical bowl formerly from the Tsui Museum of Art Collection is illustrated in Ceramics IV, Hong Kong, 1995, no. 111. It is recorded that bowls of this design were made for a guifei, highest-ranking imperial concubines, or a fei, imperial concubines, op. cit., p. 64. Compare also the bowl sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 5 November 1997, lot 972.

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