KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)

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A TURQUOISE-GLAZED 'LOTUS LEAF' DISH
KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)
The heavily potted dish in the form of a large lotus leaf, with radiating naturalistic veining within a foliate rim, covered in an attractive turquoise glaze
11 1/8 in. (28.3 cm.) diam.

Provenance

E. G. Kostolany, Esq.; Sotheby's, 3 March 1953, lot 77.
Bears a label: Beurdeley, 682, Expert.

Exhibited

Monochrome Porcelain of the Ming and Manchu Dynasties, The Oriental Ceramic Society, London, 27 October - 18 December, 1948, no. 203.

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Lot Essay

A very similar dish is illustrated by M. Beurdeley and G. Raindre, Qing Porcelain, Famille Verte, Famille Rose, London, 1987, colour plate 209, pp. 144 and 145. A turquoise-glazed dish of this form, with a small crab applied to the surface and an aubergine-glazed rim, is illustrated by R. L. Hobson, The Catalogue of the Eumorfopoulos Collection, London, 1927, plate LIII, no. E.193; and another, similar, is illustrated by Beurdeley and Raindre, ibid., no. 121, p. 84.

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