CHENGHUA SIX CHARACTER MARK, KANGXI (1662-1722)

Details

A Chinese blue and white saucer dish
Chenghua six character mark, Kangxi (1662-1722)
Painted overall with fruit-laden branches of peach and finger citrus issuing from stems of rich curling foliage, encircled by a single-line border below the slightly everted rim, small rim chips and frittings
33.5cm. diam.

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Christie's charge a buyer's premium of 20% (VAT inclusive) for this lot.

Lot Essay

This typical Chinese pattern of fruiting peach and finger citrus is symbolic for a happy and long life. Dutch merchants must have felt attracted to it as they chose this pattern to be copied with the addition of the V.O.C. monogram at the Arita kilns in Japan via the Dutch trading post of Deshima. For a similar example, see C.S. Woodward, Oriental Ceramics at the Cape of Good Hope 1625-1795, p. 72, ill. 101-102. For a Japanese Arita dish with the VOC monogram, compare the illustration 105-107 on page 74 and The Japan Sale, in our Amsterdam Rooms, 28 September 2000, lot 5.

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