Lot 3005
3005
A RARE PAIR OF LARGE IRON-RED AND UNDERGLAZE BLUE ‘DRAGON’ DEEP BOWLS
A RARE PAIR OF LARGE IRON-RED AND UNDERGLAZE BLUE ‘DRAGON’ DEEP BOWLS
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A RARE PAIR OF LARGE IRON-RED AND UNDERGLAZE BLUE ‘DRAGON’ DEEP BOWLS

KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARKS IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN DOUBLE CIRCLES AND OF THE PERIOD (1662-1722)

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A RARE PAIR OF LARGE IRON-RED AND UNDERGLAZE BLUE ‘DRAGON’ DEEP BOWLS
KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARKS IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN DOUBLE CIRCLES AND OF THE PERIOD (1662-1722)
The bowls are each decorated to the entre with a roundel enclosing an iron-red five clawed dragon amongst underglaze blue cloud scrolls and waves. The exterior of the bowl is decorated with nine dragons in various positions, each with a trailing fire scroll all on a ground of foaming crescent waves. The rim is decorated with a band of interlocking pierced cash symbols.
7 3/8 in. (18.7 cm.) diam., Japanese wood boxes
Provenance
A Japanese private collection acquired in Tokyo in the last 20 years

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Lot Essay

Compare a very similar bowl of the same size in the Palace Museum Collection, Beijing, illustrated in Miscellaneous Enamelled Porcelains Plain Tricolour Porcelains, The Complete Collection of Treasures in the Palace Museum, Shanghai, 2009, pp. 184-185, pl. 146.

Several similar bowls have been sold at auction, including a pair of bowls at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 5 April 2017, lot 3678; and two single bowls also at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, one on 30 October 2002, lot 289, and the other on 25 April 2004, lot 306.

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