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THREE FAMILLE-VERTE 'BIRTHDAY' DISHES QING DYNASTY, KANGXI PERIOD
Estimate
15,000 - 25,000 USD
Sold
12,500 USD
bidding is closed
Description
- porcelain
- Diameter 6 5/8 in., 17 cm
each finely potted and enameled at the center with a scholar on horseback, turning to watch an attendant throw a sword, the rim with alternating butterflies and scattered peach blossoms, the base with an apocryphal Chenghua mark in underglaze blue within a double circle (3)
Provenance
Christie's New York, 23rd March 1995, lot 359.
Catalogue Note
Compare a dish of this same design and subject design in the W.J. Holt collection, illustrated in R.L. Hobson, Bernard Rackham and William King, Chinese Ceramics in Private Collections, London, 1931, pl. 247.