THE PROPERTY OF A DUTCH FAMILY
A pair of powder blue famille verte dishes

KANGXI

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A pair of powder blue famille verte dishes
Kangxi
Enamelled to the star-shaped central panel with a phoenix flying over a mythical beast spitting fire in a fenced garden, the rim and well reserved with eight octafoil cartouches alternately enclosing a mythical and Buddhistic symbol, all reserved on a powder blue ground, the reverse with three sprays of prunus, the base engraved with wheel-cut 'N = 135' Dresden Palace Collection mark
40.3 cm diam. (2)

Lot Essay

The wheel-cut inventory mark on the base of these dishes indicate they were once part of the collection of Augustus the Strong of Saxony. His enormous collection was categorized in subjectmatters between 1721 and 1733. It appears that some of the porcelain left the collection in the late 18th and 19th Centuries, and three sales were held in the early part of this century.

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