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TWO UNUSUAL FAMILLE VERTE SQUARE DRAGON SEALS
One with yellow ground, the other with a green ground, both surmounted by addorsed dragons heads with whisker-fringed mouths, segmented brows and manes, each side applied with finely detailed pairs of confronted dragons contesting a flaming pearl amidst clouds and flames, the green-ground seal with clouds and flames on the top, all in yellow, green, aubergine and black, the base of each left in the biscuit and carved with an apocryphal seal of the Kangxi Emperor, one reading Da Qing Kangxi Yulan Zhibao, the other, Da Qing Kangxi Bishu Shanzhuang
5¼ in. (13.3 cm.) square, wood stand (2)
One with yellow ground, the other with a green ground, both surmounted by addorsed dragons heads with whisker-fringed mouths, segmented brows and manes, each side applied with finely detailed pairs of confronted dragons contesting a flaming pearl amidst clouds and flames, the green-ground seal with clouds and flames on the top, all in yellow, green, aubergine and black, the base of each left in the biscuit and carved with an apocryphal seal of the Kangxi Emperor, one reading Da Qing Kangxi Yulan Zhibao, the other, Da Qing Kangxi Bishu Shanzhuang
5¼ in. (13.3 cm.) square, wood stand (2)
Provenance
Frank Caro, New York, November 1962.