AN UNUSUAL UNDERGLAZE-BLUE AND COPPER-RED-DECORATED CELADON-GROUND DISH

KANGXI PERIOD, CIRCA 1675-1700

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AN UNUSUAL UNDERGLAZE-BLUE AND COPPER-RED-DECORATED CELADON-GROUND DISH
KANGXI PERIOD, CIRCA 1675-1700
The large dish, with a wide everted rim, is decorated in the center over raised slip with a groom holding a crop and leading a horse that appears to bow in submission, all set against a celadon-glazed ground. The base bears an apocryphal Xuande mark.
11 in. (28 cm.) diam.

Provenance

S. Marchant & Son, Ltd., London, 1989.
Collection of Julia and John Curtis.

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Lot Essay

A related dish decorated in the same palette with the same technique over a raised slip, is illustrated in S. Marchant & Son, Exhibition of Transitional Wares for the Japanese and Domestic Markets, London, 1989, p. 41, no. 58. It depicts, somewhat off-center, a kneeling foreigner carrying a tray on his head bearing tribute items of coral, a pearl and two rhinoceros horn cups. Like the present example, it also bears an apocryphal Xuande mark.

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