A RARE PAIR OF COPPER-RED-DECORATED DRAGON MEDALLION BOWLS

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A RARE PAIR OF COPPER-RED-DECORATED DRAGON MEDALLION BOWLS
KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARKS IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD

Well-potted with deep rounded sides rising from a cylindrical foot, each finely painted on the exterior with five, five-clawed, scaly dragons, their contorted, sinuous bodies forming circular medallions, the interior with a single dragon roundel at the center, the copper-red fired to a rosy pink with a faint speckling of apple-green, all reserved on a milky-white ground
5¾in. (14.6cm.) diam. (2)
Provenance
Nagatani, 1955
Stephen Junkunc, III
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Lot Essay

A bowl of this pattern, size and date is illustrated by Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. 2, London, 1994, no. 733; one is in the Baur Collection, illustrated by Ayers in the Catalogue, vol. IV, Geneva, 1974, no. A530, where the author mentions another in the Royal Ontario Museum; and a pair is illustrated in Zhongguo taoci daxi (Chinese Ceramics Series), Qingdai taoci daquan (Qing Ceramics), Taipei, 1987, p. 121 (bottom)