Assiette en porcelaine à décor de dragons Chine, dynastie Qing, époque kangxi (1662-1722)

circulaire le rebord évasé, l'intérieur incisé avec un dragon vert présentant ses griffes dans les flots, le pourtour avec deux dragons allongés courant au-dessus des vagues, marque Hongzhi à six caractères dans un double cercle en bleu sous couverte

The dish is an overall good condition. There are two minute iron spots inside, an iron spot and a small flaw in the glaze in front of the head of the dragon outside, a few tiny pinprick burst air bubles to the base beneath, all original to the piece.
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A closely related dish from the Hongzhi period of the same size and shape but with the dragon surrounded by waves, deeply incised and covered with a pale-green enamel, is illustrated in Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. two, London, 1994, pl. 693. See also a Hongzhi dish in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, published in Minji meihin zuroku, vol. II, Tokyo, 1977, pl. 82, also with the dragon-and-cloud design.