KANGXI (1662-1722)

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A LARGE FAMILLE VERTE DISH
Kangxi (1662-1722)
With shallow rounded sides, the centre finely enamelled with two figures standing below a pine tree in a mountainous lakescape surrounded by radiating petal-shaped panels containing a plethora of auspicious flowers, insects and birds, including prunus, bamboo, peony, butterflies and finches, within an outer register of panels containing mythical beasts and idyllic landscapes, birds and flowers all, reserved on a pale yellow ground below a border of florettes, the base with an underglaze-blue seal mark within a double square and double circle, very small frit chips
21¾ in. (55.3 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Bernheimer, Münich

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Lot Essay

The mark reads zhi, which can be translated as 'made'. See G. Davison, The Handbook of Marks on Chinese Ceramics, London, 1994, no.1650, pp.149 and 193, where the author indicates that this form of the zhi mark was for Imperial use. Compare the dish of similar size and with radiating panels, from the Salting Collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum, illustrated by Gorer and Blacker, Chinese Porcelain and Hardstones, London, 1911, vol.I, plate 133; and another, slightly smaller, which also bore this rather unusual mark, and sold in these Rooms, 13 November 2001, lot 224.

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