A DOUCAI 'MAGPIE' DISH

KANGXI UNDERGLAZE BLUE SIX-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1662-1722)

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A DOUCAI 'MAGPIE' DISH
KANGXI UNDERGLAZE BLUE SIX-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1662-1722)
The dish has gently rounded sides and is supported on a short, slightly tapered foot. The interior is decorated with a magpie in flight, with another perched on a flowering prunus branch beside bamboo and rockwork. The sides are painted with bamboo and flowering branches of peony and prunus.
6¼ in. (15.8 cm.) diam.

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Lot Essay

The design of magpies combined with prunus provides a rebus for 'happiness up to the tips of your eyebrows'. See a similar dish in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong: Qing Porcelain from the Palace Museum Collection, Hong Kong, 1989, p. 116, no. 99. Another similar dish was sold in these rooms, 8 November 2011, lot 443.

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