KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)

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A DOUCAI 'DEER' DISH
KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)
The dish is painted in rich colours to the interior depicting a yellow deer carrying a red lingzhi fungus in its mouth below bats in flight, set in a garden with turquoise rocks bearing lingzhi. The well is similarly decorated with a garden scene with a bird, bees and a monkey amid lingzhi fungi, fruiting peach trees and flowering plants emerging from rocks. The exterior is embellished with four lingzhi sprigs in red and aubergine. The base is inscribed with an apocryphal Chenghua mark in underglaze blue.
8 1/8 in. (20.6 cm.) diam.

Provenance

C.P. Lin
Spink & Son Singapore

Literature

Spink & Son, Guanyao and Minyao: Porcelain of the Ten Emperors, 1997, no. 2

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Lot Essay

The bird is a pun for jue, 'noble rank' and the deer provides the homophone for lu, 'emolument'. As such, when the images of the bird, deer, bees and monkey are combined together they form the rebus, Juelu Fenghou, 'May you receive high rank and emolument'.

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