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A rare pair of doucai 'dragon and phoenix' bowls Kangxi six-character marks and of the period (4) image 1
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A rare pair of doucai 'dragon and phoenix' bowls
Kangxi six-character marks and of the period

17 May 2018, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

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A rare pair of doucai 'dragon and phoenix' bowls

Kangxi six-character marks and of the period
Vividly enamelled with two blue five-clawed dragons each in pursuit of a flaming pearl and alternating with two green, iron-red and aubergine phoenix all amid wispy cloud scrolls, above a floral scroll around the foot, wood stands. The largest 15.4cm (6in) diam. (4).

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清康熙 鬥彩龍鳳呈祥盌 一對
青花「大清康熙年製」楷書款

Provenance: a European private collection, and thence by descent

來源: 歐洲私人收藏,並由後人保存迄今

The present pair of bowls is very rare in its combination of design and size. However, see one example illustrated by Wang Qingzheng, ed., Kangxi Porcelain Ware from the Shanghai Museum Collection, Shanghai, 1998, pl.160. However for a pair of related dishes with dragons on a yellow-ground, see Yang Boda, The Tsui Museum of Art: Chinese Ceramics IV: Qing Dynasty, Hong Kong, 1995, no.120, and for a related smaller blue-wash-ground example, decorated with dragons only, see Chinese Porcelain: The S.C. Ko Tianminlou Collection, Part I, Hong Kong, 1987, pl.91. See also a similarly decorated dish, Kangxi mark and period, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Porcelains in Polychrome and Contrasting Colours, Hong Kong, 1999, pl.210.

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