A PAIR OF WUCAI 'DRAGON AND PHOENIX' DISHES

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A PAIR OF WUCAI 'DRAGON AND PHOENIX' DISHES
ENCIRCLED YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARKS AND OF THE PERIOD

Each boldly enamelled to the centre with an ascending five-clawed green dragon with one leg outstretched to grasp a flaming pearl amid iron-red flames and doucai cloud scrolls, the everted rim with a border of underglaze-blue dragons in mutual pursuit of flaming pearls within the gilded edge, the reverse with a frieze of four phoenix in flight amid cloud scrolls (minute nicks to footrim, gilt slightly rubbed)
7 7/8in. (20cm.) diam.

Provenance

Captain C. Oswald Liddell

Exhibited

Bluett & Sons, Exhibition of the Liddell Collection of Old Chinese Porcelain, Catalogue no. 166

Lot Essay

Cf. another Yongzheng dish of this pattern sold in these Rooms, 17 January 1989, lot 673.

A similar example is illustrated in The Tsui Museum of Art, Chinese Ceramics IV, Qing Dynasty, no. 126.

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