UNDERGLAZE BLUE KANGXI SIX CHARACTER MARK WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD

Details

A famille verte biscuit-enamelled incised bowl
Underglaze blue Kangxi six character mark within a double circle and of the period
The exterior finely incised with a two five-clawed striding dragons chasing pearls, enamelled in green, lime, aubergine, yellow and black, and glazed on biscuit with two butterflies approaching blossoming peony and lotus branches, the interior and base glazed white, restorations
15 cm. diam.

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Lot Essay

A pair of similar bowls in the British Museum is illustrated in S. Vainker, Chinese Pottery and Porcelain, pl. 154; another pair in the Victoria & Albert Museum, illustrated in Gulland, Chinese Porcelain, Vol.I, nos. 360 and 361; in Sekai Toji Zenshu, vol.12, pl. 44; in The Catalogue of The Eumorfopoulos Collection, Vol.5, pl.XXXVIII, no.E200; in Jenyns, Later Chinese Porcelain, pl. XXXV, fig.1; and in the Hong Kong Museum of Art, The S. C. Ko Tianminlou Collection, Part II, no. 81.

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