A FINE PAIR OF YELLOW-GROUND GREEN AND AUBERGINE-ENAMELLED 'DRAGON' DISHES MARKS AND PERIOD OF KANGXI |

each with rounded sides rising from a short foot, incised to the centre with a pair of green and aubergine dragons encircling a flaming pearl amongst stylised clouds and flames, the exterior decorated with four double clusters of grapes, the base centred with a six-character reign mark, all against a warm yellow ground

Collection of Henry Mazot (1882-1956).

Good condition.
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A similar pair of dishes was included in the exhibition Qing Mark and Period Monochrome and Two-coloured Wares, S. Marchant & Son, London, 1992, cat. no. 6; another from the Sir Percival David collection, now in the British Museum, is illustrated in Margaret Medley, Illustrated Catalogue of Ming Polychrome Wares in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, London, 1978, pl. 777; and a further example was included in the exhibition The Wonders of the Potter's Palette, Qing Ceramics from the Collection of the Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1984, cat. no. 24. This pair of dishes was formerly in the family collection of Henry Mazot (1882-1956), who lived and worked in Beijing from the 1920s for the Bank of Indochina where he served as Chairman. The family left Beijing in 1946 to move back to France, where they settled in Normandy. All Chinese porcelain in the family collection was left untouched in wooden trunks in the basement of their chateau from 1946 until 2015, when his granddaughter, who inherited the home, finally opened them.