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TWO LARGE FAMILLE VERTE POWDER BLUE-GROUND CHARGERS
KANGXI
Each similarly decorated with a large central octafoil panel, one depicting the capture of Song Jian from Shuihu Zhuan (Outlaws of the Marsh), the other depicting officials and attendants bringing gifts to the Empress seated in the center of the palace complex, the first enclosed by an iron-red, prunus-head border below the well decorated with lappets of flowers and 'precious objects' picked out in gilt against the powder-blue ground, the second with a plain double-line border in iron-red below a dense pattern of dragons amidst lotus and a ruyi border in gilt at the well, fritting, chips, one with restoration--both 20¾in. (52.7cm.) diam. (2)
