Lot 256
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A SET OF THREE LARGE BLUE AND WHITE 'PEACOCK-PATTERN' DISHES
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A SET OF THREE LARGE BLUE AND WHITE 'PEACOCK-PATTERN' DISHES

KANGXI (1662-1722)

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A SET OF THREE LARGE BLUE AND WHITE 'PEACOCK-PATTERN' DISHES
KANGXI (1662-1722)
Each painted with a large flower head with a roundel of scrolling foliage at the centre, and eight radiating petal-shaped panels, each enclosing a different flowering plant, the wide border with four peacocks alternating with pomegranates in a basket within cartouches, all reserved on a ground of scrolling chrysanthemum
16½ in. (42 cm.) diam. (3)
Provenance
with E. Owens Antiques, Liverpool.
The Royal & Sun Alliance Insurance Group plc.
Special notice
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Lot Essay

A larger dish of this design (55 cm. diam.) is in the Topkapi Saray Museum, illustrated by R. Krahl and J. Ayers, Chinese Export Porcelain in the Museum of Topkapi Saray, Istanbul, London, 1986, vol. III, no. 2300, p. 1050.

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