A COPPER-RED-DECORATED 'DRAGON' BOWL
A COPPER-RED-DECORATED 'DRAGON' BOWL
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A COPPER-RED-DECORATED 'DRAGON' BOWL

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

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A COPPER-RED-DECORATED 'DRAGON' BOWL
CHINA, QING DYNASTY, KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1662-1722)
The deep, rounded sides rising to a slightly everted rim, finely decorated on the exterior with five dragon medallions and on the interior with a single dragon medallion
5 ¾ in. (14.6 cm.) diam.
Provenance
The James and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection, Chicago, acquired prior to 1958.
Exhibited
Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, on loan for the opening of its Oriental Art Galleries at Blackstone Hall, October-December 1958.

Lot Essay


An identical bowl is illustrated by R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. 2, London, 1994, no. 733; another is in the Baur Collection, illustrated by J. Ayers in the Catalogue, vol. IV, Geneva, 1974, no. A530, where the author mentions another in the Royal Ontario Museum; and a pair is illustrated in Zhongguo taoci daxi (Chinese Ceramics Series), Qingdai taoci daquan (Qing Ceramics , Taipei, 1987, p. 121.

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