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THE WILLIAM T. KEMPER CHARITABLE TRUST
A RARE PAIR OF SMALL GREEN-GLAZED INCISED SAUCER DISHES, KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN BLACK WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD, each thinly potted and of shallow form, the center crisply incised with a pair of sinuous leaping dragons contesting a 'flaming pearl' amidst flames within a black double-line border and below a single-line border at the rim, the exterior with four incised clusters of grapes pendant from a black line encircling the rim and above a similar border below, all under an apple-green glaze applied to the biscuit, base glazed white, one with rim crack and star crack in base--5¼ in. diam. (2)
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A RARE PAIR OF SMALL GREEN-GLAZED INCISED SAUCER DISHES, KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN BLACK WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD, each thinly potted and of shallow form, the center crisply incised with a pair of sinuous leaping dragons contesting a 'flaming pearl' amidst flames within a black double-line border and below a single-line border at the rim, the exterior with four incised clusters of grapes pendant from a black line encircling the rim and above a similar border below, all under an apple-green glaze applied to the biscuit, base glazed white, one with rim crack and star crack in base--5¼ in. diam. (2)