AN UNUSUAL COPPER-RED-DECORATED AND INCISED 'DRAGON' BOWL

KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)

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AN UNUSUAL COPPER-RED-DECORATED AND INCISED 'DRAGON' BOWL
KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)
Made in imitation of early Ming prototypes, with steep sides, painted on the interior two dragons contesting a flaming pearl within a roundel, the exterior painted with two striding dragons in pursuit of flaming pearls amidst flames and reserved on an incised ground of waves crashing on rockwork emerging from the short foot, all within line borders, the base with apocryphal six-character Xuande mark in underglaze blue within a double circle
8 3/16 in. (20.8 cm.) diam., box

Provenance

Christie's, London, 21 March 1966, lot 68.

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Lot Essay

A very similar bowl, also with apochryphal Xuande mark, but dated Kangxi, is illustrated in Kangxi Porcelain Wares from the Shanghai Museum Collection, Shanghai/Hong Kong, 1998, no. 73. Another with Kangxi mark, and of the period, from the J.M. Hu Family Collection, was sold Sotheby's, New York, 4 June 1985, lot 18.

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