KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)

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AN UNUSUAL COPPER-RED-DECORATED 'FISH' JAR
KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)
The heavily potted, ovoid jar has a short, rounded rim, and is decorated in copper red of a dark tone with two winged dragon/carp, each leaping in the midst of four fish of different kinds, all with underglaze-blue eyes.
11¾ in. (30 cm.) high, wood stand

Provenance

Acquired in Hong Kong in the 1950s-1960s.

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Lot Essay

A jar of similar shape, also decorated in copper-red with similar decoration, and dated Kangxi, is illustrated by John Ayers in Far Eastern Ceramics in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1980, pl. 185, where the decoration is described as 'carp changing into dragons'. The transformation from carp to dragon symbolizes promotion to the position of official.

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