A Good Biscuit-Enameled and Incised Dish

KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1662-1722)

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A Good Biscuit-Enameled and Incised Dish
Kangxi six-character mark in underglaze blue within a double circle and of the period (1662-1722)
Of saucer shape with slightly flaring rim, the interior incised with a central medallion of a scaly dragon chasing a flaming pearl within a line border encircled by two other dragons in pursuit of pearls amidst scrolling clouds in the well, the design repeated on the outside between line and lappet borders, all under enameled branches of fruiting peach and pomegranate on the interior and flowering branches on the exterior
9 7/8in. (25.1cm.) diam., box

Provenance

Sotheby's, London, 6 April 1976, lot 163.
Sotheby's, London, 16 May 1989, lot 70, Collection of the British Rail Pension Fund.

Exhibited

On loan: Dallas Museum of Art, 1985-1988.

Lot Essay

Dishes of this type include the one in the S. C. Ko Tianminlou Collection, illustrated in Chinese Porcelain, Part 1, Hong Kong, 1987, no. 80; another included in The Exhibition of Chinese Ceramics of Eight Dynasties, National Museum of History, Taipei, 1987, p. 86; one exhibited in The Wonders of the Potter's Palette, Hong Kong Museum of Art, November 1984-January 1985, no. 22; another in the Tokyo National Museum included in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, Tokyo, 1982, vol. 1, no. 158; and one in the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, illustrated by He Li, Chinese Ceramics, San Francisco, 1996, p. 296, no. 613

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