A PAIR OF FAMILLE VERTE CORAL-GROUND DISHES

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A PAIR OF FAMILLE VERTE CORAL-GROUND DISHES
KANGXI

Each painted in the center with a scene of a scholar seated on a rock in contemplation, reserved on a coral-red ground, the base with an apocryphal Chenghua mark in large characters within a double circle--6 3/8 in. (16.2cm.) diam., boxes
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Lot Essay

Compare a very similar dish decorated with green, pink and coral enamels, bearing a Yongzheng mark, illustrated by Beurdeley and Raindre, Qing Porcelain, 1987, p. 101, pl. 139, and two famille verte examples, lacking the coral-ground, in the Percival David Foundation, both illustrated in Ch'ing Enamelled Ware, Section 2, 1973, Catalogue, nos. 803 and 825a