KANGXI SIX CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

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An aubergine and green yellow-ground 'dragon' saucer dish
Kangxi six character mark and of the period
Incised and painted to the centre in green, aubergine and cream enamels with two scaly five-clawed dragons contending a flaming pearl amongst cloud and fire-scrolls beneath a band of prunus, camellia, chrysanthemum, peony and lotus on the rounded sides, the exterior decorated with four similar dragons, rim crack
32.1 cm. diam.

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For a similar example see the Eumofopoulos Collection, illustrated by Hobson, Catalogue, vol. V, pl. XXVIII, E. 199; and an example from the H.B. Harris Collection in the British Museum, illustrated in Chinese Ceramics in Private Collections, Hobson, Rackham and King, fig. 229, p. 127.
This dish, and the pair to it, formerly in the Collection of Captain C. Oswald Liddell, no. 153, were exhibited at Bluett and Sons, London and subsequently sold in our London Rooms, 19 April 1983, lot 380.

For an example modelled with an everted rim, see the H.A. Hartog Collection included in the Exhibition Tausend Jahre Chinesische Keramik, Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, 1974, Catalogue no. 144; and a third is illustrated in Ayers, Far Eastern Ceramics in the Victoria and Albert Museum, no. 197.

This dish was offered at Sotheby's Hong Kong, April 1997, lot 698.

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