A FINE BLUE AND WHITE SAUCER-DISH

KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

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A FINE BLUE AND WHITE SAUCER-DISH
kangxi six-character mark and of the period
Painted to the central roundel with a boy holding a scrolling branch branch with three large peonies amidst C-scrolls, all reserved on a blue ground, surrounded by a geometric and floral band below the rim, the exterior with flowering prunus, lotus and camelia divided by grass tufts and insects, supported on a raised foot, minute rim frits
6.3/8 in. (16.2 cm.) diam.

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Compare the dish with similar central design in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, illustrated by W. B. Honey, op.cit., 1927, pl.40, fig.a; and the unusual Kangxi teapot and cover with this design illustrated in Chinese Blue-and-White Porcelain in the Frick Collection, 1992.

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