A BLUE AND WHITE DEEP DISH

EARLY KANGXI PERIOD, CIRCA 1665

Details

A BLUE AND WHITE DEEP DISH
EARLY KANGXI PERIOD, CIRCA 1665
The well-potted dish is decorated in the interior with a scene of two ducks in a lotus pond with mountains in the distance. The base bears an apocryphal Chenghua mark encircled by the unglazed channeled foot.
11 in. (28 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Joseph M. Morpurgo, Amsterdam, 1984.
Collection of Julia and John Curtis.

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Lot Essay

The unglazed channeled foot on the present lot, as well as on lots 3580, 3581, 3589, and 3591 in this catalogue, appears to have been used by the potters at Jingdezhen for a short period of time around 1670, and disappears in the second half of the Kangxi period.

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