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Lot Essay
The design of this dish is inspired by Wanli period wucai dishes. Compare to a Wanli mark and period dish with dragons on a floral scroll ground in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum - 38 - Porcelains in Polychrome and Contrasting Colours, Hong Kong, 1999, no. 50.
Kangxi-marked dishes of this design include one illustrated by John Ayers, Far Eastern Ceramics in the Victoria and AlbertMuseum, London, 1980, no. 192 (32.7 cm.); one illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, vol.38: Porcelains in Polychrome and Contrasting Colours, Hong Kong, 1999, no. 133 (32.4 cm.); one from the Chang Foundation, Taipei, illustrated in Selected Chinese Ceramics from Han to Qing Dynasties, Taipei, 1990, no.122 (32 cm.); and another illustrated in The Tsui Museum of Art: Chinese Ceramics IV, Qing Dynasty, Hong Kong, 1991, no.98 (32.5 cm.), where Yang Boda mentions in his introduction to the collection that the dish is an excellent example of Imperial wucai ware, p. 61.
Kangxi-marked dishes of this design include one illustrated by John Ayers, Far Eastern Ceramics in the Victoria and AlbertMuseum, London, 1980, no. 192 (32.7 cm.); one illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, vol.38: Porcelains in Polychrome and Contrasting Colours, Hong Kong, 1999, no. 133 (32.4 cm.); one from the Chang Foundation, Taipei, illustrated in Selected Chinese Ceramics from Han to Qing Dynasties, Taipei, 1990, no.122 (32 cm.); and another illustrated in The Tsui Museum of Art: Chinese Ceramics IV, Qing Dynasty, Hong Kong, 1991, no.98 (32.5 cm.), where Yang Boda mentions in his introduction to the collection that the dish is an excellent example of Imperial wucai ware, p. 61.