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

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AN UNDERGLAZE-BLUE AND YELLOW-ENAMELLED 'DRAGON' DISH
KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN DOUBLE CIRCLES AND OF THE PERIOD (1662-1722)
The dish is potted with shallow rounded sides rising to a slightly everted rim, and decorated on the interior with a fierce five-clawed dragon leaping amidst clouds and flaming scrolls in pursuit of a 'flaming pearl'. The well is similarly decorated with two further dragons repeated on the exterior above a petal lappet border.
10 in. (25.2 cm.) diam., box

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Compare to a Kangxi-marked dish of this pattern in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Qingdai yuyao ciqi, vol.1, Beijing, pp. 138-141, no. 36; one illustrated in the Tokyo National Museum Catalogue, Japan, 1965, no. 615; and another illustrated in Mayuyama Seventy Years, vol. 1, no. 1047.

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