KANGXI (1662-1722), JOHANNEUM MARK N:7
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A LARGE FAMILLE VERTE DISH
KANGXI (1662-1722), JOHANNEUM MARK N:7
With shallow rounded sides and everted wide border with foliate rim, enamelled with 'The Eight Horses of Muwang', a groom standing beside his horses, which are variously grazing, rolling, scratching, or tied up to a post, the rim finely enamelled with crane roundels on an iron-red ground of intersecting flowers, the reverse with freely-enamelled peony sprays around the incised Johanneum mark and an underglaze-blue artemesia leaf mark in a double circle, cracked, rim frits
14 5/8 in. (37.3 cm.) diam.
KANGXI (1662-1722), JOHANNEUM MARK N:7
With shallow rounded sides and everted wide border with foliate rim, enamelled with 'The Eight Horses of Muwang', a groom standing beside his horses, which are variously grazing, rolling, scratching, or tied up to a post, the rim finely enamelled with crane roundels on an iron-red ground of intersecting flowers, the reverse with freely-enamelled peony sprays around the incised Johanneum mark and an underglaze-blue artemesia leaf mark in a double circle, cracked, rim frits
14 5/8 in. (37.3 cm.) diam.
Provenance
The Hon. Mrs. Nellie Ionides no. 840
Exhibited
A Tale of Three Cities, Canton, Shanghai and Hong Kong, Sotheby's London, 1997, no. 100
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