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

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A PAIR OF COPPER RED-DECORATED 'DRAGON' BOWLS
KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARKS IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1662-1722)
Each bowl is finely incised and decorated to the exterior with two striding five-clawed dragons chasing flaming pearls, all between a thick copper red band to the mouth and foot rims.
6 1/8 in. (15.5 cm.) diam.

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Lot Essay

Compare the current bowls to an almost identical single bowl in the Percival David Collection at the British Museum, museum number PDF, B.665.
Another bowl of this type is in the collection of the Shanghai Museum and is illustrated in Kangxi Porcelain wares from the Shanghai Museum Collection, Hong Kong, 1998, p. 110, no. 73.

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