Lot Essay
Compare a similarly decorated dish painted with two birds and an insect, dated Kangxi, illustrated by Zimmermann, Chinesisches Porzellan, vol. II, Leipzig, 1923, p. 108
Details
A WELL-PAINTED FAMILLE VERTE SAUCER DISH
KANGXI
The interior finely painted with a bird perched on a stalk of grass rising from a lotus pond amidst stems of lotus blossoms and leaves in the foreground, within an outer border of naturalistic vignettes of various pairs of birds and a pair of crabs alternating with iron-red peony blossoms reserved on a diaper ground, the exterior painted with a continuous river landscape, with gilt highlights
10½in. (27.2cm.) diam., box
KANGXI
The interior finely painted with a bird perched on a stalk of grass rising from a lotus pond amidst stems of lotus blossoms and leaves in the foreground, within an outer border of naturalistic vignettes of various pairs of birds and a pair of crabs alternating with iron-red peony blossoms reserved on a diaper ground, the exterior painted with a continuous river landscape, with gilt highlights
10½in. (27.2cm.) diam., box
Provenance
Stephen Junkunc, III