A PAIR OF YELLOW, GREEN AND AUBERGINE-GLAZED INCISED DISHES

QING FAMILLE VERTE AND BISCUIT WARES PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATES OF KATHERINE AND ALFRED ROMNEY

Details

A PAIR OF YELLOW, GREEN AND AUBERGINE-GLAZED INCISED DISHES
KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARKS IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD

Each interior decorated in rich tones of yellow, green, aubergine and pale turquoise with fruit-laden peach and pomegranate branches superimposed over an incised design of two dragons pursuing a flaming pearl amidst clouds, two similarly occupied dragons incised above a band of petal lappets on the exterior partially obscured by flowering branches of rose and camellia
9¾in. (24.8cm.) diam. (2)

Further details

See illustration of one

Lot Essay

Dishes of this type include the one in the S. C. Ko Tianminlou Collection, illustrated in Chinese Porcelain, Part 1, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1987, no. 80; another included in The Exhibition of Chinese Ceramics of Eight Dynasties, National Museum of History, Taipei, 1987, Catalogue, p. 86; one exhibited in The Wonders of the Potter's Palette, Hong Kong Museum of Art, November 1984 - January 1985, Catalogue, no. 22; another in the Tokyo National Museum included in The World's Great Collections Oriental Ceramics, vol. 1, Tokyo, 1982, no. 158; and one in the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, illustrated by He Li, Chinese Ceramics, San Francisco, 1996, p. 296, no. 613