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

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A BLUE AND WHITE BOWL
KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1662-1722)
The exterior is finely decorated in vibrant tones of cobalt blue with a frieze of leafy meander bearing six lotus blossoms above a petal-lappet band. The interior is decorated with a single lotus bloom within a central roundel.
6 ¼ in. (16 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Private collection, Europe, acquired in Asia in the late 1960s.
Christie’s London, 5 December 1994, lot 21 (part).

Lot Essay

A similar bowl, also with Kangxi mark, in the collection of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, is illustrated in Qing Imperial Porcelain of the Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong Reigns, Nanjing Museum, Art Gallery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong 1995, no. 19.

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