KANGXI (1662-1722)

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A FAMILLE VERTE SAUCER-SHAPED DISH
KANGXI (1662-1722)
Finely and boldly enamelled at the centre with a kingfisher grasping the stalk of a bullrush and peering into a lotus pond beside flowering lotus blooms and large lotus leaves, a cricket perched on the edge of one of the leaves, all below a gilt moon, the rim with a wide band of black, pale yellow, pale aubergine and iron-red trellis pattern reserved with four finely enamelled cartouches depicting a pair of crabs, a pair of swallows, a pair of quail and a pair of cranes, the cartouches alternating with iron-red flower heads, the reverse decorated on the rounded sides with a continuous river landscape with fishing boats, rocky hills, figures on promontories, and a thatched shelter, minor underside rim chips, one sliver is restuck
10¾ in. (27.3 cm.) diam.

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Lot Essay

A larger dish (39 cm.) with similar design but with two kingfishers, is in the Collection formed by Augustus the Strong and now in the Dresden Porcelain Collection. This dish was acquired into the Royal Collection in May 1724 and is illustrated by E. Ströber, La maladie de porcelaine ..., Berlin, 2001, no. 29, also illustrated by E. Zimmermann, Chinesisches Porzellan, Leipzig, 1913, vol. II, plate 93, and was exhibited Porzellan Sammlung Dresden, Im Zwinger, Staatlicher Kunstsammlung, Dresden, 1998, p. 67.

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