A FINE SMALL GREEN AND AUBERGINE-ENAMELLED INCISED 'DRAGON' BOWL

KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1662-1722)

Details

A FINE SMALL GREEN AND AUBERGINE-ENAMELLED INCISED 'DRAGON' BOWL
KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1662-1722)
The exterior incised with a pair of striding dragons amidst clouds in pursuit of 'flaming pearls', above waves breaking against stylised rocks, reserved in aubergine enamel against an emerald-green enamel ground, the interior and underside base with a transparent glaze
4 3/8 in. (11.2 cm.) diam., box

Provenance

Previously sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 28 November 1979, lot 284
Greenwald Collection, no. 61

Literature

Gerald M. Greenwald, The Greenwald Collection, Two Thousand Years of Chinese Ceramics, 1996, Catalogue, no. 61

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Lot Essay

Bowls of this green and aubergine enamel design are known with the reign mark either written in three or two line format. An identical Kangxi bowl with the reign mark written in the same three line format as the present bowl, in the Helen and Peter Lin Collection, was included in the exhibition, Joined Colors, Decoration and Meaning in Chinese Porcelain, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., 1993, p. 91, no. 20. The same publication also illustrates another Kangxi bowl of this design from the same Helen and Peter Lin Collection with its reign mark written in a two line format, p. 90, no. 19.

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