TWO AUBERGINE AND GREEN-GLAZED YELLOW-GROUND SAUCER DISHES

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TWO AUBERGINE AND GREEN-GLAZED YELLOW-GROUND SAUCER DISHES
KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARKS IN AUBERGINE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD

Each decorated in the center with a green and an aubergine dragon contesting a flaming pearl amidst flames, and on the exterior with four pendent clusters of grapes, all within aubergine line borders and reserved on a thin yellow-glazed ground which also covers the base (hair cracks)
5 3/16in. (13.2cm.) diam. (2)

Lot Essay

A similar dish was included in the Exhibition of Ch'ing Porcelain from the Wah Kwong Collection, Hong Kong, 1973, Catalogue, no. 42. See, also, a Kangxi dish of this pattern, from the Percival David Foundation, illustrated in the Catalogue, Section 5, pl. VII, no. 777