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Lot Essay
Compare the current dishes to a pair of unusual doucai dishes of similar size and comparable iron-red ground, from the collection of the 7th Earl of Castle-Stewart, sold at Christie's London, 11 November 2003, lot 135.
See also a famille verte baluster jar in the Butler Family Collection with comparable iron-red cell pattern ground and the unusual inclusion of turquoise enamel seen on the current dishes, illustrated by Sir Michael Butler, Margaret Medley and Stephen Little in Seventeenth Century Chinese Porcelain from the Butler Family Collection, Virginia, 1990, p, 107, no. 60. This jar is dated to the Shunzhi period (1645-1655), suggesting that the current dishes would date to the earlier part of the Kangxi reign (1662-1722).
See also a famille verte baluster jar in the Butler Family Collection with comparable iron-red cell pattern ground and the unusual inclusion of turquoise enamel seen on the current dishes, illustrated by Sir Michael Butler, Margaret Medley and Stephen Little in Seventeenth Century Chinese Porcelain from the Butler Family Collection, Virginia, 1990, p, 107, no. 60. This jar is dated to the Shunzhi period (1645-1655), suggesting that the current dishes would date to the earlier part of the Kangxi reign (1662-1722).