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Lot Essay
This delightful design of carps in a lotus pond is inspired by Jiajing wucai jars decorated with this scheme. One group of such Kangxi wucai dishes are inscribed with apocryphal Jiajing marks, such as the current example; another group is inscribed with zai chuan zhi le marks, which can be translated as ‘the joy of being in the rivers’.
An identical dish with a Jiajing mark in the Shanghai Museum Collection, (fig. 1), is illustrated in Kangxi Porcelain Wares from the Shanghai Museum Collection, Shanghai, 1998, no. 178. The museum also houses an example with zai chuan zhi le mark, ibid., no. 179. Further examples bearing zai chuan zhi le marks include one in the Beijing Palace Museum, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures in the Palace Museum, vol. 38: Porcelains in Polychrome and Contrasting Colours, Hong Kong, 1999, cat. no. 134; one in the Percival David Foundation Collection, illustrated by Stacey Pierson, in Designs as Signs: Decoration and Chinese Ceramics, London, 2001, cat. no. 7; one in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, accession no. guci 018338N000000000.
An identical dish with a Jiajing mark in the Shanghai Museum Collection, (fig. 1), is illustrated in Kangxi Porcelain Wares from the Shanghai Museum Collection, Shanghai, 1998, no. 178. The museum also houses an example with zai chuan zhi le mark, ibid., no. 179. Further examples bearing zai chuan zhi le marks include one in the Beijing Palace Museum, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures in the Palace Museum, vol. 38: Porcelains in Polychrome and Contrasting Colours, Hong Kong, 1999, cat. no. 134; one in the Percival David Foundation Collection, illustrated by Stacey Pierson, in Designs as Signs: Decoration and Chinese Ceramics, London, 2001, cat. no. 7; one in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, accession no. guci 018338N000000000.