A CHINESE WUCAI 'DRAGON AND PHOENIX' DISH

Qing Dynasty, Kangxi mark and of the period

清康熙 五彩穿花龍鳳紋盤

《大清康熙年製》款

Delicately potted with shallow rounded sides that curve up from a tapered foot to a gently-everted rim, painted to the centre with pairs of confronting five-clawed dragons and colourful phoenixes amongst large flowering peonies and leafy stems, the cavetto with alternating dragons and phoenixes in motion bordered by concentric bands in underglaze-blue, the exterior similarly decorated, underglaze-blue six-character Kangxi mark within a double ring to the base,

25.1cm diameter

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PROVENANCE:

Purchased on the European art market in the 2010s;

Private Collection, France;

來源：

2010年代購於歐洲藝術市場

法國私人收藏

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c.f. There are several examples of dishes bearing very similar designs, mostly with six-character Kangxi marks and being of the period, sold at auction. See an almost-identical example, of the same size and with a similar handwriting style, offered at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 7th October 2015, lot 3709. Another very similar dish and of a similar size was offered at Sotheby's New Bond Street, 15th May 2019, lot 41.

Compare similar dishes to the aforementioned lots, for example a slightly larger dish from a Swedish private collection, sold at Sotheby's New Bond Street, 13th May 2015, lot 138, and another at Christie's New York, 15th September 2011, lot 1501.

Compare with a similar wucai dish, also Kangxi mark and of the period, in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in 'The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Porcelain in Polychrome and Contrasting Colours', Hong Kong, 1999, no.133. Another similar Kangxi period famille-verte dish decorated in underglaze blue and overglaze enamels, but with Xuande mark, is illustrated by R.S. Kilburn in 'Transitional Wares and their Forerunners', Hong Kong, 1981, p.210, pl.186.

Other dishes with the same composition have been included in the O.C.S. exhibition 'The Animal in Chinese Art', London, 1968, cat. no. 116, and also in The Tsui Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1991, cat. no. 102. Another is illustrated by John Ayers in 'Far Eastern Ceramics in the Victoria and Albert Museum', London, 1980, cat. no. 192.

A dish of the same size is housed in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, acc. no. 33.40.71.

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