KANGXI

Details

A famille verte saucer dish
Kangxi
The inner medallion and rounded sides painted with iron-red, yellow and green carp among underglaze-blue and enamelled waterweeds, all between double-line borders, repeated on the reverse, the base with the private hallmark zai chuan zhi le (rejoicing in the stream) within a double square, minor glaze frits
20.5 cm. diam.

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Lot Essay

Similar dishes with carp are illustrated by Liu Liang-yu, Ching Official and Popular Wares. A Survey of Chinese Ceramics, vol. 5, p. 16; another from the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, London, is included in Oriental Ceramics, Kodansha Series, vol. 6, pl. 62; and in The Shanghai Museum, China Museum Collections, Jingdezhen Polychrome Ceramics, vol 21, no. 70.

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