A FINE DOUCAI 'DRAGON' DISH
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A FINE DOUCAI 'DRAGON' DISH

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A FINE DOUCAI 'DRAGON' DISH
KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1662-1722)

The interior medallion is painted in bright enamels with a green and iron-red full-faced dragon detailed with a colourful mane, chasing a 'flaming pearl' on a ground of green, blue, iron-red and aubergine clouds, the exterior decorated with a dragon and a phoenix in mutual pursuit of a 'flaming pearl' on a cloud ground
8 3/8 in. (21.3 cm.) diam., box

拍品專文

Dishes with identical decoration are published, one in the National Palace Museum, Taibei, illustrated in the Catalog of the Special Exhibition of K'ang-Hsi, Yung-Cheng and Ch'ien-Lung Porcelain Ware from the Ch'ing Dynasty in the National Palace Museum, 1986, no. 22; and another sold in these Rooms, 13 January 1987, lot 487.

Compare also dishes of the same design but on a yellow-enamelled ground, one in the Beijing Palace Museum, illustrated in Wucai, Doucai, Porcelains in Polychrome and Contrasting Colours, The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, 1999, pl. 210; another sold in these Rooms, 20 March 1990, lot 644; and a bowl decorated on the exterior with a similar dragon and phoenix design against a yellow ground, illustrated in Kangxi Porcelain Wares from the Shanghai Museum Collection, 1998, pl. 160.