A PAIR OF AUBERGINE AND GREEN-GLAZED YELLOW-GROUND 'DRAGON' DISHES

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A PAIR OF AUBERGINE AND GREEN-GLAZED YELLOW-GROUND 'DRAGON' DISHES
kangxi six-character marks and of the period

Each enamelled and incised with two scaly five-clawed dragons in mutual pursuit of a flaming pearl amongst fire and cloud-scrolls at the centre of the interior below flowering prunus, peach, tree-peony, camellia, chrysanthemum and lotus in a wide band at the border, the reverse with four similar dragons, one restored, other rim crack
12½in. (32cm.) diam., one fitted box (2)

Lot Essay

Cf. the similar example in the Eumorfopoulos Collection, illustrated by R. Hobson, Catalogue vol.V, pl.XXXVIII, no.E199. A pair of dishes similarly decorated but with a band of dragons at the flattened rims from the Liddell Collection were sold in these Rooms 19 April 1983, lots 379 and 380, one of which was illustrated by A. du Boulay, Christie's Pictorial History of Chinese Ceramics, p.211, fig.2

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