Lot 307
307
PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF EDGAR AND HEDWIG WORCH
A PAIR OF YELLOW-GROUND BLUE AND WHITE DISHES

Details
A PAIR OF YELLOW-GROUND BLUE AND WHITE DISHES
KANGXI

Each painted in the center in deep inky blue with three flowerheads, reserved on a densely scrolled ground within a double-line border, the molded petals of the shallow sides rising to a barbed rim, each centered by an 'aster', repeated on the exterior, all but the flowerheads under a thin, iridescent, egg-yolk-yellow glaze, minor rim chips--6½in. (16.6cm.) diam. (2)
Exhibited
Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum, Chinese Ceramics from the Prehistoric Period through Ch'ien Lung, March 14-April 27, 1952, p. 110, no. 332

Lot Essay

A pair of dishes of the same size and pattern is illustrated by du Boulay, A Pictorial History of Chinese Ceramics, p. 213, no. 8

A pair of dishes of the same pattern, but larger, were sold in these rooms June 1, 1990, lot 282