ENCIRCLED KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1662-1722)

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A YELLOW GROUND 'DRAGON' DISH WITH AUBERGINE AND GREEN ENAMELS
Encircled Kangxi six-character mark and of the period (1662-1722)
The shallow bowl with decoration incised and enamelled on the rich yellow ground, on the interior with a central medallion enclosing a pair of dragons, one green and one aubergine, amidst clouds and circling around a flaming pearl, the cavetto with sprigs of fruit and flowers, on the exterior the yellow ground with a green and an aubergine dragon in procession around the dish with clouds.
6 in. (15.2 cm.) diam.

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Lot Essay

Two slightly smaller Kangxi marked dishes bearing similar decoration are in the collection of the Percival David Foundation, and are illustrated by M. Medley in Illustrated Catalogue of Ming Polychrome Wares, London, Percival David Foundation, 1978, plate XII, no. 145.
A pair of dishes with the same design as the current dish from the Shanghai Museum are illustrated by Lu Minghua in Kangxi Porcelain Wares from the Shanghai Museum Collection, Hong Kong, 1998, pl. 146. A further pair of such dishes from the collection of E.T. Chow were sold in Hong Kong in November 1980. This type of dish was copied in the 18th century, but usually the cavetto on the later examples was undecorated.

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