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DRAGONS FROM THE EMPIRE - IMPERIAL CERAMICS FROM THE YIDETANG COLLECTION
A RARE DOUCAI LEMON YELLOW-GROUND ‘DRAGON’ DISH
KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1622-1722)
Details
A RARE DOUCAI LEMON YELLOW-GROUND ‘DRAGON’ DISH
KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1622-1722)
The dish is decorated on the interior with a double-line medallion enclosing a front-facing five-clawed dragon and a flaming pearl amid clouds. The reverse is decorated with a dragon and phoenix in flight amidst clouds above rolling waves and rocks, interspersed with a flaming pearl. All reserved on a pale lemon-yellow ground.
8 3/8 in. (21.2 cm.) diam., box
KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1622-1722)
The dish is decorated on the interior with a double-line medallion enclosing a front-facing five-clawed dragon and a flaming pearl amid clouds. The reverse is decorated with a dragon and phoenix in flight amidst clouds above rolling waves and rocks, interspersed with a flaming pearl. All reserved on a pale lemon-yellow ground.
8 3/8 in. (21.2 cm.) diam., box
Provenance
T.T. Tsui Collection
Sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 29 April 1996, lot 754
Sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 29 April 1996, lot 754
Literature
The Tsui Museum of Art - Chinese Ceramics IV, Qing Dynasty, Hong Kong, 1995, no. 119
Exhibited
Hong Kong Museum of Art, no. 175
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