A large verte-Imari dish

KANGXI

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A large verte-Imari dish
Kangxi
Decorated in vivid enamels, iron-red and gilt on underglaze blue with a central panel enclosing a globular vase with flowers on a balustraded terrace, the well and broad rim with birds and butterflies among branches of plum blossom and peony, divided by large ruyi-lappet panels enriched with meandering chrysanthemum heads and foliage, the reverse with trailing branches of prunus
43.2 cm. diam.

Lot Essay

Cf. J.Ayers, O.Impey and J.Mallet, Porcelain for Palaces, the fashion for Japan in Europe 1650-1750, 1990, p.236, fig.257.
The Japanese version is in the Museum Boymans-van Beuningen in Rotterdam and is reproduced in the catalogue Amsterdam, Museum Willet-Holthuysen, 1972, fig.3

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