A WUCAI 'DRAGON AND PHOENIX' DISH

KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)

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A WUCAI 'DRAGON AND PHOENIX' DISH
KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)
With shallow rounded sides rising to a slightly everted rim, the interior painted with a pair of five-clawed dragons and a pair of phoenixes amidst scrolling, leafy stems of peony and chrysanthemum, the design repeated in the well and on the exterior, all within double blue line borders, with an apocryphal Xuande mark on the base
10¾ in. (27.3 cm.) diam.

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Lot Essay

Kangxi-marked dishes in this pattern are well known. A similar dish with Kangxi mark was included in the O.C.S. exhibition, The Animal in Chinese Art, London, 1968, no. 116. Other Kangxi-marked examples are illustrated in The Tsui Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1991, no. 102, and by J. Ayers in Far Eastern Ceramics in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1980, no. 192.

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