A FAMILLE VERTE 'DRAGON AND PHOENIX' DISH

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A FAMILLE VERTE 'DRAGON AND PHOENIX' DISH
ENCIRCLED KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

The rounded sides rising to a slightly flaring rim, the centre of the interior vividly enamelled with pairs of dragons and phoenixes on a scrolling peony ground, the well of the interior and exterior with further dragons and phoenix in mutual pursuit (rim chipped and bound with copper, fine hairlines)
10 in. (25.1 cm.) diam., box

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Previously sold in our London Rooms, 7 June 1993, lot 64.

Similar examples are illustrated in the Tsui Museum of Art, Catalogue, vol. IV, no. 98; the Tsui Museum of Art, col. pl. 102; Far Eastern Ceramics in the Victoria and Albert Museum, fig. 192; and Selected Chinese Ceramics from Han to Qing, p. 282, col. pl. 122, from the Chang Foundation.

A comparable dish is illustrated in The Museum of East Asian Art, Inaugural Exhibition, Catalogue, vol. 1, p. 234, col. 183.

(US$3,500-4,000)

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