KANGXI INCISED FOUR-CHARACTER MARK BEARING A GUIYOU CYCLICAL DATE CORRESPONDING TO 1693, AND OF THE PERIOD

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A FINE AND RARE AUHUA-DECORATED WHITE-GLAZED 'DRAGON' STEMBOWL
KANGXI INCISED FOUR-CHARACTER MARK BEARING A GUIYOU CYCLICAL DATE CORRESPONDING TO 1693, AND OF THE PERIOD
With deep rounded sides rising from a high, slightly flaring foot to an everted rim, moulded in auhua on the interior with a frieze of two striding dragons chasing flaming pearls, one embedding a mark, Tong Dahao zhi, 'made by Tong Dahao', the other inscribed with Kangxi guiyou, 'guiyou year in the Kangxi reign', covered all in an even white glaze except for the footrim
5 3/4 in. (14.5 cm.) diam., Tibetan box

Provenance

Previously sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 19 January 1988, lot 344; and again at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 30 October 2002, lot 235

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Lot Essay

The present lot is unique with its marks of a cyclical date and of the potter, and being a dated piece from the period. No other published example is known. The anhua decoration of dragons on white-glazed stembowl is fashioned after the Yongle prototype produced for imperial ceremonial use. Compare two Yongle examples, one bearing an anhua Yongle reign mark and in the British Museum, illustrated by J. Harrison-Hall, Ming Ceramics in the British Museum, London, p. 98, fig. 3:1; and the other from the Tibetan Museum, illustrated in Treasures from Snow Mountains: Gems of Tibetan Cultural Relics, Shanghai Museum, 2001, pl. 93, where two Ming period stembowl cases are included, one made of hemp fibres, pl. 95, the other of gilt copper, pl. 99.

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