UNDERGLAZE-BLUE XUANDE SIX-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE, KANGXI (1662-1722)

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A PEACHBLOOM-TYPE DISH
UNDERGLAZE-BLUE XUANDE SIX-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE, KANGXI (1662-1722)
With shallow rounded sides rising from a short tapering foot to a flaring rim, covered on the exterior with a peachbloom-glaze mottled with pale green speckles under the white rim, the base glazed white, minor rim chip restored, rim hairline cracks
6 5/8 in. (16.8 cm.) diam.

Provenance

E. T. Hall Collection, no. 3

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Lot Essay

A very similar Kangxi dish, also with Xuande mark, is in the Baur Collection, illustrated by John Ayers, The Baur Collection, Chinese Ceramics. Volume Three. Monochrome-glazed Porcelains of the Ch'ing Dynasty , Geneva, 1972, no. A 299; another similar but slightly smaller example is illustrated in Monochrome Porcelain, The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum (Beijing), Hong Kong, 1999, p. 23, no. 20; and another comparable example is in the Percival David Foundation (no. 512). Mr. Ayers claims that wares of this type are precusors of the peachbloom wares, made towards the end of the Kangxi period.

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